Seif Eddine Nechi (Tunisia)

Seif Eddine Nechi, comic books illustrator, was born in Tunis in June 1974. After graduating from literature and psychology, Seif Eddine served as an art director in the advertising industry for several years. He launched a satirical, political blog in 2009 that was censored in 2010 by the Tunisian regime. Seif Eddine also co-founded a comics magazine lab 619 with Aymen Mbarek. Following several participations to international exhibitions in Tunisia and abroad, Seif Eddine was awarded with prize for the Best Electronic comic at Cairocomix 2 and was the finalist at the Mahmoud Kahil Award the same year for the «Tawahoch » comic. It’s in 2017 that Seif Eddine was awarded, again, with the Prize for best Digital graphic novel in Cairocomix3 for his « bombyx More » in collaboration with Aymen Mbarek. In 2018 he participated in the exhibition « new generation of Arab comics artists »