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Graduate from the University of Pernambuco in Brazil, Elizabeth Alves de França e Silva (Liz França) began her career in 2002 in “Jornal do Commcercio”. Since then, she has drawn live caricatures and participated in exhibitions, fairs and comic strip festivals. She currently draws illustrations and cartoons in the art section of the newspaper “Folha de Pernambuco”.
Born in 1939 in Stockholm, Riber Hansson is a freelance editorial cartoonist for Swedish as well as international newspapers and magazines.
He has published four collections of his own political cartoons and was a Grand Prix winner of both World Press Cartoon (Sintra, Portugal) in 2007 and Press Cartoon Europe (Madrid, Spain) in 2009.
Hicabi Demirci was born in Samsun, Turkey in 1968. A graduate of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Ankara in 1992, he has worked in the animation field and done illustrations for books and magazines. Winner of various national and international cartoon competitions, he published two cartoon collections. He currently works as illustrator for the Turkish daily newspaper « Radikal ».
