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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On the Belgian Comic Strip Center's first floor the visitor will find temporary exhibitions, dedicated to an artist, a movement, a theme or one of the world's countless comic strip heroes. Every year the Belgian Comic Strip Center regales its visitors with six to eight temporary exhibitions.
Each day, in each genre, each style and each language, from classic to contemporary, from fantasy to satire, from autobiography over crime until heroic fantasy, new works are published in albums thus enriching our extraordinary comic heritage. This exhibition room, The Gallery, is dedicated to those works that make up today’s landscape in comics.
At a time when Belgium is holding the presidency of the European Union, the Belgian Comic Centre is delighting the general public with an exceptional selection of original comic strips extracted from so many major works produced by European comic strip artists and writers in the last one hundred years.
This exhibition, initiated by Isabelle, André Franquin’s daughter, and with the support of the artist Frédéric Jannin is neither an exhaustive record nor an informative account of La Bande des Quatre. Rather, it is a declaration of love.
Tove Jansson’s Dreamworld
Popularised around the world through comic strips, the Moomin series is above all a rich and sensitive body of comic strip work, created by Tove Jansson (1914-2001), an essential Finnish illustrator and author.