LUCAgraduates 25 Master Graphic Storytelling Brussels

 20 year old Beryl goes to China for the first time, as a Chinese American who cannot speak Chinese. She can’t even pronounce 广顺 Guǎng Shùn, her middle name. She doesn’t know who Guang Shun is, but it definitely can’t be her.

In the country she is supposed to be “from,” she feels more alienated than ever. Her heritage has rejected her and it’s all her family’s fault –– but what she doesn’t know yet is that she can accept it herself.

ink and crayon on paper

berylchvng@gmail.com
IG: @hiberylchung
berylchung.com

In a world where everything is moving too fast and in all directions, Deumylvintkat is a quiet call to courage. The courage to stop. To take a breath. To observe one’s environment with intention. To look back at where we come from, and to pay close attention to where each step is leading us today.

Pencil on paper

firdawsobt@gmail.com
IG: @phird.obt

In a story about artistry, brotherhood, chicken, diligence, effortlessness, menace, numbers, pussycats, religion, sports, and unity, we follow Broeder Roeland in his search for a peaceful place to write.

Will he find it? And where might that be? In the jungle? In a monastery? On a battlefield? You can ask him yourself, as Broeder Roeland will be continuously present within, as well as beyond, the opening hours of this exhibition.

painting, drawing, stencilprinting

tekenaarfynn@gmail.com
IG: @fvanderziel

The material leads the narrative, unfolding across three chapters, each with its own visual language and style. It's an exploration and experiment with various materials, driven by a curiosity about how a line can be drawn. The images shown are selected from a larger series.

B5, Rollerpen, Acrylic Ink, Glue

guillaume.tack@outlook.be
IG: @gigi_tack

In the near future, global nuclear warfare had wiped out all human life on earth. One of the only lifeforms to withstand both the blasts and resulting nuclear fallout, the common cockroach, filled the void left behind, becoming earth’s new dominant species.

Not much had changed.

it bugs me. (wt) is a slow, methodical plod through modern (future) life, following a normal day in the life of an average office worker. Equal parts mood piece and black comedy, the comic serves as satire commenting on the cyclical nature of (human) history, and the violence underscoring it all.

n.hydeartist@gmail.com
IG: @n._hyde_comix

A graphic novel that explores a girl's emotional transformation following the loss of someone dear to her, expressed through shifts in both her physical surroundings and inner world.

Each chapter represents a distinct stage in her emotional journey—from grief, anxiety, and sorrow to reflection, and ultimately, to healing and serenity. Rather than following a conventional plot, the narrative centers on the visceral experience of emotion, using visual metaphors to give shape to the intangible.

Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil, 182x236mm

liyuworks01@gmail.com
IG: @lyuuu_art
liyu-art.com

Soon the Moon follows the contrasting lives of two artists in Apartheid-era South Africa: Bill Hart, a White sculptor, once celebrated in Johannesburg’s elite art scene, and Thami Mnyele, a young Black artist whose work is shaped by the struggle, transforming it into an act of defiance. Bill was teaching art classes in a semi-professional crafts centre in Soweto when the uprising of students protesting Afrikaans-language education were met with brutal police violence in 1976. This event shook the nation, reinforcing the urgency of Thami’s mission and Bill’s dissonance from it.

Black pencil on paper. 29,7 x 21 cm.

mmm@maiamatches.com
IG: @mmmmatches
maiamatches.com

Mol is a simple person with a simple schedule, everyday is the same, and so are the fears to keep under control. Until one day everything changes when she meets someone from her past who shakes things upside down for better or worse. This is a story that talks about the consequences of being bullied, with events that took inspiration from real life.

Combination of digital art with pencil and watercolours, 165x230mm

marthe.pieron@gmail.com
IG: @pieron.ma

My grandma died on November 9th, 2023. This comic is a tribute to her and to us, to dying, to grieving, and to being sort of fine in the end.

pencil on paper

mettedortona@hotmail.com
IG: @frog_inabog_

As the mailwoman receives a letter of mourning, she sees the path of unwelcomed change that she now must walk. On her journey of acceptance and resistance she notices how easily nature is constantly saying welcome and farewell. How easily but carefully it lets go of its companions and how eventually, in time, spring does come.

A story about letters, change and spending time with yourself.

Pencil and soft pastels on paper

nina.tack@hotmail.com
IG: @gomkruimel

Relatie In De Ring, the most iconic reality-comic ever. Where couples compete for €1,000,000. Follow them on this crazy journey, with a lot of unexpected turns. May the best couple win!

Pen on paper, digital coloring 210 x 297 mm

Sarah13oujani@gmail.com
IG: @schetsboekje_sarah

Hindsight Is a narrative that offers sweet and sour emotions. It begins by questioning belonging, and from there, emotions get tangled. The narrator tries to solve the puzzle by playing with metaphors from his language and food elements from his homeland.

The text digs into memory, moving between clarity and abstraction—where language itself becomes a landscape: unfixed, textured, and intimate.

performance, with material projected on fabric

tharwatmaatouk@gmail.com

an autobiographical graphic novel

Pencil on paper

lailaurel@gmail.com
IG: @laixiner