Comic for Sophia Kinderziekenhuis. Translation: "Hi, there. I'm from 'The Window Cleaner Show'." Exclusively for the Sophia Children's Hospital, we come to keep the children company for a few days."
Tonio van Vugt graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 1990. He founded the alternative comic magazine Zone 5300 with Robert van der Kroft in 1994. He works as an illustrator, comic artist and cartoonist for several advertising agencies, government institutions and magazines like Art.1, Maritiem Museum Rotterdam, FNV Kiem Magazine and Mikro Gids. He is also a critic and writer for magazines and websites.
Van Vugt is involved in the organization of several expositions and festivals. In 2014, he succeeded Joost Pollmann as artistic director the comic festival in Haarlem.
Since 2017, he is a member of the band Panama Paupers, together with fellow (former) comic artists Remco Lee Polman, Menno Kooistra and Alex Wesselink.
Cartoon by Tonio van Vugt. Translation: "Smart butcher shops on the rise. - "And these are beef steaks from a very smart cow. He read from the Koran every day, in three languages!".