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.
Fee: 1,2 € or 9€ per person for 10 entrances
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 by clicking on one the following addresses:
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, Audie, Fluide Glacial, Bamboo, Balloon Books, Ballon Media, BD Must, Caravelle, Casterman, Champaka, Dargaud, Delcourt, Dupuis, Drugstore, Futuropolis, Glénat, Graton, Hibou, Hugo&Cie, Humanoïdes Associés, Joker, Jungle, Kana, Lombard, Loup, Oogachtend, Saga Uitgaven, Several Pictures, Soleil Production, Standaard Uitgeverij, Treize Etrange, Vents d'Ouest
Periodicals:
Les Amis de Hergé, Les Amis de Jacobs, Aniway, Delcourt Comics, Echo des Savanes, Fluide Glacial, Gabriel, Hop!, Lucha Libre, P@per, Plots, Quatrième de Couv', Revue Reflets, Spirou, Star Wars la saga en BD, Star Wars the clone Wars, Stripburger, Strip Gids, Strip Nieuws, Stripschrift, Zone 5300, Zoo, Zozolala
Last News
Great exhibition
Marten Toonder Centenary
07/02/2012 > 23/09/2012
The comic strip writer, illustrator and author Marten Toonder has enchanted several generations of readers with his Panda and Tom Puss series published in the daily press in many countries. The exhibition at the Belgian Comic Strip Center marks the start of a year of international celebration of the work of this 20th century storyteller, born in Rotterdam in 1912, whose bust is prominently placed in the Dutch Museum of Literature in The Hague, Holland.
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 in the Gallery
Simon Spruyt & Fritz Van den Heuvel
24/04/2012 > 17/06/2012
De Bamburgers: Rust en Vrede Pub. Silvester
In 2006, the first adventures of the "Bamburgers" were voted Best Youth Album by the society Het Stripschap and nominated for the Flemish comic strip prize, the Bronze Adhemar.