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The Belgian Comic Strip Center (French: Centre belge de la Bande dessinée; Dutch: Belgisch Stripcentrum) is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Belgian comics. It is located at 20, rue des Sables / Zandstraat , in an Art Nouveau building designed by Victor Horta , and can be accessed from Brussels-Congress railway station and ...
The Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels created a comics department with teachers like Eddy Paape, and was largely responsible for the new, more adult-oriented authors who came to the fore in the 1980s and 1990s. Expositions with the major artists were organized throughout the country, some by amateur enthusiasts, some endorsed by the government. [34]
Comic mural in the Stoofstraat [] depicting a scene from The Calculus Affair, featuring Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy. Brussels' Comic Book Route (French: Parcours BD de Bruxelles; Dutch: Striproute van Brussel) is a path composed by several comic strip murals, which cover the walls of several buildings throughout the inner City of Brussels, as well as the neighbourhoods of Laeken and ...
Franco-Belgian comics, together with American and British comic books and Japanese manga, are one of the three main markets.The term is broad, and can be applied to all comics made by French and Belgian comics authors, all comics originally published by French and Belgian comics publishers, or all comics in the styles appearing in the Franco-Belgian comics magazines Tintin and Spirou, possibly ...
Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels; Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Brussels; Musée communal des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles, rue Jean Van Volsem 71, 1050 Ixelles; Musée d'art spontané, rue de la Constitution, 27 à 1030 Brussels; Musée royal d'art moderne à Bruxelles, Place Royale 1–2, à 1000 Brussels; Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp
Comic art (known as bande dessinée or the 9th Art) first became popular in Belgium in the 1920s, but achieved huge popularity internationally after the Second World War. It is considered an essential part of Belgian visual culture, as well as one of the country's main artistic influences internationally. [3]
A visible manifestation of the latter has become the prestigious "Centre belge de la Bande dessinée" (Dutch: "Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal", English: "Belgian Comic Strip Center") established in 1989 in the Belgian capital Brussels, and which, as one of the largest BD museum in Europe, draws in 200,000 visitors annually. [73]
A frame from Muñoz/Sampayo strip Alack Sinner, Flic ou Privé, displayed in Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Brussels. José Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz (born July 10, 1942) is an Argentine artist. He is most notable for his influential black-and-white artwork.