Steinmann's contribution to the SNGFSTVL & Strips special (2020).
Kim Steinmann is a Dutch performer, comedian and visual artist. Originally going by the name Pim Steinmann, she was a child cartoonist who published her first and only comic book 'Mier' (2003) under Margreet de Heer's small press imprint Senoeni Comics.
Senoeni Comics
Kim Steinmann was born in 1989 as Pim Steinmann, and started drawing comics before she could write. Apart from a great productivity, creating dozens of different comic characters, she also displayed a promising talent. In 2002, she won the National Championship for Juvenile Comic Artists, after which she was the first in a long line of (very) young comic artists to be guided and published by Margreet de Heer under her Senoeni Comics imprint. Among the other Senoeni artists were Wouter Goudswaard, Daniël Arruda Massa and Aimée de Jongh.
'Mier'. Translation: The ant buys elephant food, but the sign reads he is not allowed to feed the animals.
In August 2003, Steinmann was only 13 years old when Senoeni published her first and only comic book, 'Mier Part 1', a gag series about an ant and his friends. She also contributed to Senoeni's collective fairy tale comic book 'Sprookjes in Strookjes' (2006), with a comic based on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'. In the period 2002-2005, Steinmann's comics appeared on the online comics portal Stripster. Together with fellow cartoonist Jordy Knoop, Steinmann launched the Daily Danger comics portal to publish their webcomics. The site and its domain were later used by Margreet de Heer as an online continuation of Senoeni Comics.
'Alice in Wonderland', from 'Sprookjes in Strookjes'.
Professional life
Kim Steinmann has eventually moved on to study Fine Arts at the Utrecht School of the Arts (2010-2015) and then did her Master's at the Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Antwerp (2015-2017). As an adult, Steinmann moved on to other art forms. Based in Breda, and active in both The Netherlands and Belgium, she has worked on installations and as a performance artist, whose style is a combination of warm fantasy and human discomfort. Since 2018, Kim Steinmann is also presenter and co-founder of Stortvloed, an event for spoken word, storytelling and comedy in Breda.
In 2020, she briefly returned to comics with a half-page contribution to Dolly Bellefleur and Margreet de Heer's 'SNGFSTVL & Strips', a special Songfestival issue of Personalia's Stripglossy magazine.
Parody of Annette Tison's Barbapapa.