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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 ...
Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, [1] alongside France with whom they share a long common history.
Bandes dessinées (singular bande dessinée; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (BD franco-belge), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. These countries have a long tradition in comics, separate from that of English-language comics.
The Brussels Exhibition Centre (French: Parc des Expositions de Bruxelles; Dutch: Tentoonstellingspark van Brussel), also known as Brussels Expo, is the primary event complex in Brussels, Belgium. Located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels ), the twelve halls that comprise it are used for the largest ...
Cent ans de bande dessinée (en vers et en poèmes), Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2007. Pour une poésie du dimanche, Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2009. 11 Vues de Grenade, Soumagne : Tétras-Lyre, 2009. Autres nuages, en collaboration avec Olivier Deprez, Bruxelles : Les Impressions nouvelles, 2012.
The Centre for Fine Arts [1] [2] (French: Palais des Beaux-Arts, pronounced [palɛ de boz‿aʁ]; Dutch: Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, pronounced [paˈlɛis foːr ˈsxoːnə ˈkʏnstə(n)]) is a multi-purpose cultural venue in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
It is common in English to refer to the comics of different cultures by the terms used in their languages, such as manga for Japanese comics, or bandes dessinées for French-language Franco-Belgian comics. [152] Many cultures have taken their word for comics from English, including Russian (комикс, komiks) [153] and German . [154]
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]