Benyahia Racim Bey ( ar, بن يحيى رسيم باي; Born in
Constantine
Constantine most often refers to:
* Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Constantine I
* Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria
Constantine may also refer to:
People
* Constantine (name), a masculine given na ...
, Algeria, in 1987) is an Algerian
Digital Illustrator and
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
.
Racim Benyahia is the winner of the 1st Prize for the ''Best Poster'' at the 5th International Festival of Comics of Algeria (2012).
He was also awarded the 3rd Prize at the 4th version of the same international festival in 2011.
"Constantine 1836"
In 2017, at the "Maghreb des Livres"
in Paris, an event of which he designed the official poster,
Racim Benyahia presented his first comic book, "''Constantine 1836''" (Dalimen Editions, 2016), illustrating the first
Battle of Constantine
The aim of the 1836 Battle of Constantine was to conquer the Algerian city of Constantine; the attack was a French failure.North Africa, Revised Edition: A History from Antiquity to the Present - Phillip C. NayloCitation/ref>
The expedition
...
in 1836 featuring the resistance of
Ahmed Bey
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet.
Etymology
The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...
against the colonial armies led by the
Maréchal Clausel.
The author insisted on the fact that although he added a personal touch, he remained as "faithful" as possible to the historical records related to this major battle in Algerian-French history.
Artistic background and family ties
He is the son of Algerian artist
Ahmed Benyahia
Ahmed Benyahia ( ar, أحمد بن يحيى; born in Constantine, Algeria, on 11 May 1943) is an Algerian artist.
He is a notable alumnus of the ''École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts'' of Paris, where as a student in the late 1960s he p ...
, and nephew of Algerian French artist
Samta Benyahia
Samta Benyahia ( ar, صامته بن يحيى) born in Constantine, Algeria, in 1950, is an Algerian French artist, known for her Arab Berber Andalusian geometrical patterns and rosaceae, called ''fatima''.
Benyahia studied at the École Nat ...
.
References
External links and references
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اختتام المهرجان الدولي الخامس للشريط المرسوم بالجزائر*
La BD dans la peau*
Dessine-moi mon Histoire !*
Une édition dédiée aux pionniers et aux nouveaux auteurs*
Résultats Concours Affiche*
Tomber de rideau et remise de prix*
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Cérémonie autour des lauréats 2012
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Algerian artists
Living people
1987 births
People from Constantine, Algeria
Algerian contemporary artists
21st-century Algerian people