Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
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The Marc Sleen Museum
Come and see the Marc Sleen Museum just across the street! In the unique setting of what used to be a newspaper office, the Marc Sleen Foundation proposes a standing exhibit, a reading room and series of temporary exhibits in order to discover the many facets of an exceptional work by a superb storyteller, a master comic strip artist and a brilliant cartoonist: Marc Sleen.
The work of Marc Sleen, a living legend of Belgian comic strip art in Flemish, was officially transferred to rue des Sables in Brussels, just across from the Belgian Comic Strip Center, in the new museum named after him. The choice of a building in Rue des Sables was no accident. In this same street, just a few yards away from the new Marc Sleen Foundation, Nero first saw the light in 1947. At the time, the artist was an illustrator and cartoonist for “De Nieuwe Gids”, a daily paper. By setting up in rue des Sables, the Marc Sleen Foundation has doubled back in time – the hero of more than 200 comic books has come back home. The address is also a new homage to a great Belgian artist.
The Museum has been set up by the Marc Sleen Foundation, which aims to protect the work and memory of Marc Sleen, and endeavours to make his work known to as vast an audience as possible. You can buy entrance tickets at the Belgian Comic Strip Center.
www.marc-sleen.beLast News
Great exhibition
77 years of Romanian comics
25/10/2011 > 20/05/2012
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.
Exhibition at the Gallery
Marc Wasterlain
17/01/2012 > 04/03/2012
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.
Next great exhibition
100 years of Marten Toonder
07/02/2012 > 23/09/2012
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.