Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
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As a cultural ambassador, the Belgian Comic Strip Center is represented on all continents by means of exhibitions, conferences, creative workshops, consultancies,… Relying on its experience in numerous areas related to its activities (comics, architecture, museums, tourism, documentation), the Centre also acts as an expert for organizers of Belgian and international projects.
The Belgian Comic Strip Center produces all kinds of exhibitions for private and public institutions at home and abroad, on one condition: they must be related to comic strips. Among the Belgian Comic Strip Center's clients we find:
- Companies such as Citroën Automobile (Les aventures de Citroën) or Bayer Leverkusen (Belgien – Land der Comics) - Several representations of Belgium and France abroad - Several departments and cities in France - Commissariat aux Rélations Internationales de la Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles (CGRI), association for the promotion of the Walloon and Brussels area abroad - Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren (Flemish Comics Today / La nouvelle BD flamande moderne) - Walloon Region, Namur (Bulles d'environnement)
The Belgian Comic Strip Center is always prepared to act as expert for the government and for organizers of projects in Belgium and abroad (museums-to-be, festivals, events, etc). In such cases the organizing party appeals to the Centre's experience and know-how in all of the areas related to its activities: from conception of an exhibition and research of documents to promotion.
This route, taking in façades decorated with comic strip heroes, was first organized in 1991 by Michel Van Roye, Brussels Councillor for Urban Development and the Environment, in conjunction with the Belgian Comic Strip Center. The comic strip route adds to the revaluation of Brussels' architectural and urban heritage, both for Brussels inhabitants and visitors to the city.
Admiring comic strip façades, walls and statues encourages the discovery of the centre of Brussels and its inhabitants. The development and influence of this route and the Belgian Comic Strip Center have little by little given Brussels the status of a capital: a comic strip capital, that is!
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It is to the credit of Romanian comic strip artists that they have been able to produce such original work of great talent – the fruit of a long inheritance – in the trials and tribulations of a century during which their society has suffered particularly.
Les Pixels et les Mini Dinosaures
The publication of the third Pixels album presents the Belgian Comic Strip Center with the ideal opportunity to pay tribute to an essential Franco-Belgian comic strip author.
In 2012, Maarten Toonder would have been 100 years old, and it is also the start of the Toonder year. We will be made well aware of it too! In addition to a number of exhibitions in the Netherlands, the publication of a new Tom Puss story and the première of a new B. Bumble musical, the Belgian Comic Strip Center also very much aims to be part of the celebrations.