Damien Glez

By LatAm ARTE

He was born in 1967. Damien Glez is a French-Burkinese cartoonist, columnist, lyricist, teacher, television series scriptwriter and author of the comic “Divine Comedy”. For 25 years he was deputy editor of the satirical weekly “Journal du Jeudi”. His drawings are regularly published in the magazines “Rolling Stone”, “Jeune Afrique”, “Habari RDC”, “Benbere”, “Afrique Magazine”, “The Africa report” and “World Policy Journal”. He won several prizes at the “BD'Farafina” Festival, the International Graphic Humor Show Awards, the Geneva International Book and Press Fair, the “Banja Luka” Cartoon Contest, the “Hadaf Somalia” International Cartoon Contest ”, the Political Satire Prize of “Forte Dei Marmi” and the Summit on desertified actions.