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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 ...
In Flanders, comics make up about 14% of the total number of sales of books, with 5 comics (3 from De Kiekeboes and 2 from FC De Kampioenen) in the top 20 of bestselling books of 2010. Only one translated comic made it into the top 20 of bestselling comics in Flanders, Largo Winch , indicating that while Francophone comics are still widely ...
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 finely wrought character synopsis displayed at the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Brussels. Le Rayon U (The U Ray) is a comic book written and drawn by the Belgian comics creator Edgar P. Jacobs in 1943. [1]
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 ...
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.
A page from Submerman, displayed in Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Brussels. A native of Paris, he was educated at the École des Arts Appliques, and after World War II worked as illustrator in advertising before publishing his first cartoon strip in La Semaine de Suzette in 1956, featuring a "girl next-door" character named Miss Mimi.
A page from Submerman, displayed in Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Brussels. Jacques Lob (19 August 1932 – 24 May 1990) was a French comic book creator, known for several comics creations, including Superdupont.