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.
contact: bib@comicscenter.be
Attention: access for over 16 years only.
The collection of the study library can be consulted online! However, this catalogue is a BETA 2 version.
You can access the catalogue on the following adresses:
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:
12 bis, Adonis, Age d'Or, A.Li.En, Arcadia, Audie, Fluide Glacial, Azeko, Bamboo, Balloon Books, Ballon Media, BD Must, Brabant Strip, Caravelle, Casterman, Champaka, Dargaud, Delcourt, Dupuis, Drugstore, Glénat, Graton, Hibou, Hugo&Cie, 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
Last 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.