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==Article Transcript==
The European Minicon in Girona, Spain (April 19 through
April 22) was a huge success! 36 Attendees from all over
the world, including Korea, Canada, USA and Japan.

It was about midnight. Markers, pencils, laptops, canvas,
acrylics and other drawing stuff had already been taken
upstairs. The farewell dinner had just finished and diplomas
and traditional golden glasses given out to a select group
of winners....Well, in fact we had all been winners…as our
faces displayed.

Firstly, let me make a well deserved tribute to the winners:
Harold from Holland with his sophisticated tablet and tiny
printer, Rui Duarte from Portugal, Xi Ding...wow!!! what
a talented guy!!!. And with them, the masters who never
fail: Jan, Karal, Johanna, Liesbeth, Emi, Marc, Yonie Woo,
Tony Parsons and some new faces and a future star like
Gustavo Tarantino...

As I said, the official farewell ceremony had been completed
and the organizing committee, Master Jan Op de Beeck,
as outgoing president, always with his little Sakura in his
arms, Emi, our efficient treasurer and me,” the writer”, were
at the reception front desk of the hotel requesting for the
bill, when a small group of artists (no doubt, the youngest)
encouraged us to have a drink and drain the last moments
of these four intense days we had shared together....

So that, talking to such a small group I really realized how
important this mini-con had turned out to be. Gathered at
the same table; Tony (UK), Bill (USA), Cathy (Canada), the
Portuguese colony in the centre, Belgians and Dutch at one
end and the Latin group, Spanish, Argentine and Brazilian
at the other…cheering, celebrating and strengthening ties
of friendship that went further than mere shared interests
...I could see happy faces and I at once felt relief which
compensated for those hard and stressful moments during
a whole year of organizing...

Organization, which began exactly one year ago, as I
mentioned, with me exchanging ideas with my admired
friend and co-organizer Jan Op de Beeck, ideas that were
becoming passionate desires. Firstly we agreed that the
mini-con had to be celebrated in the small but magical
town of Girona, no doubt about this point. Secondly, Joan
Vizcarra, possibly the best Spanish caricaturist for the last
twenty years, had to be our guest speaker and finally it had
to be officially the first of the mini-conventions in Europe
and a framework for creating ISCA European branch!!!

From there on, a long and exhausted journey of “ups” and
“downs”, visits to public and private institutions, phone
calls and e-mails, contacts and discussions...Well, even
after all that, I can say out loud that all the effort has been
worthwhile!!! For everything shared and learned and for new
friends and for an opportunity to meet old friends again...for
all that, it has definitely been worth it!!!

I just hope that soon another adventurer like me decides
that their city deserves to be a candidate to hold the next
European mini-con in 2013 and we will have the chance to
meet up again, because friends...I miss you all!!!

'''Likeness competition:''' 
1. Tony Parsons 
2. Gustavo Tarantino 
3. Harold Hugenholtz 

'''Best studio piece: '''
1. Rui Duarte 
2. Yonie Woo 
3. Harold Hugenholtz 

'''Best portfolio: '''
1. Rui Duarte 
2. Harold Hugenholtz 
3. Liesbeth Beckers 

'''3D competition: '''
1. Johanna Veerenhuis 
2. Karel Op De Beéck 
3. Emi Sato 

'''Black and white competition''': 
1. Jan Op De Beéck 
2. Rui Duarte 
3. Marc Till Schmid

'''Color competition:''' 
1. Xi Ding 
2. Tony Parsons 
3. Harold Hugenholtz

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TheChairman at 08:10, 7 August 2020

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