Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
visit(arrobe)comicscenter.net
The Study Library
The Belgian Comic Strip Center houses probably the most important public comic strip library with the largest number of titles in the world. The study library contains the complete collection of albums, periodicals and reference works owned by the Belgian Comic Strip Center. Opening hours are slightly different from the Belgian Comic Strip Center's and the collection is only available for consultation on site.
Tuesday to Thursday : 12 to 5pm – Friday: 12 to 6pm
Friday : 12 à 18 heures
Saturday : 10am to 6pm
Closed on Sundays and Mondays.
Attention : access for over 16 years only.
What interest would one take in a Belgian Comic Strip Center without comic albums? Before the Centre’s opening already, numerous publishers at home and abroad started actively supporting the assembly of a collection. Thanks to this precious aid, the library has become nowadays the largest public comic strip library in the world.
List of the partners of the Library
Publishers :
Adonis, Age d'Or, A.Li.En, Arcadia, Audie, Fluide Glacial, Azeko, Bamboo, Balloon Books, Ballon Media, Brabant Strip, Caravelle, Casterman, Champaka, Dargaud, Delcourt, Dupuis, Drugstore, Glénat, Graton, Hibou, Humanoïdes Associés, IKU Comics, Joker, Jungle, Kana Le Gang, Lombard, Loup, Lucky Comics, Milan, Oogachtend, Paquet, Saga Uitgaven, Schetter, Several Pictures, Soleil Production, Standaard Uitgeverij, Studio 100, Topgame, Treize Etrange, Triomphe, Vents d'Ouest, Zenda
Periodicals :
Les Amis de Hergé, Les Amis de Jacobs, L’Avis des Bulles, Belzébulle, Blam !, BoDoï, Brabant Strip, Le Collectionneur de BD, Delcourt Comics, Echo des Savanes, Fluide Glacial, Gabriel, Hop !, L’Inédit, Juve Bêdê, Lanfeust Mag, LDC Bédégramme, Lucha Libre, Myx Stripmagazine, P@per, Plots, Poison, Psikopat, Revue Reflets, Shogun, Spirou, Le Strip, Stripburger, Strip Gids, Strip Nieuws, Stripschrift, Tchô !, Trama, Viz, Zone 5300, Zozolala
News Flash
First cartoon films of the Smurfs
Because of the fiftieth birthday of the Smurfs all visitors of the Belgian Comic Strip Center can enjoy a projection of one of the very first cartoon films of these blue fellows. The cartoons were produced by Studio TVA on demand of Dupuis Publishers in between 1961 and 1967. They are fully shown, non-stop, in the small cinema room of the Comic Strip Center.
Last News
Great exhibition
The New Children's Comic Strips
18/11/2008 > 08/03/2009
Their names are Sfar, Trondheim, Robin, de Bonneval or Guibert. With the creation of new graphic forms, in the '90s these storytellers assumed a role of ever-increasing importance.
Exhibition at the Gallery
Envie 2 fraises (A taste for strawberries)
06/01/2009 > 08/03/2009
With this exhibit, the Belgian Center for Comic Strip Art again has the pleasure of welcoming a teacher and his students.
Next great exhibition
20 years of Mangas in Europe
10/03/2009 > 07/06/2009
In twenty years, mangakas are a full-fledged part of the European world of comics and their works, that have never stopped influencing European creation, are among the most respected