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19.12.25 > 04.01.26
Belgian heroes, views from the world
Between 10 days and a month: this is the time spent by eight international comic artists at the Maison Marc Sleen between September and December 2025 as part of the international residency program organized by the Comic Strip Museum: Inês Louro (Portugal), Kachisou (Portugal), Afif Khaled (France), El Diablo (Québec), Caroline Lavergne (Québec), Mohamed Haiti (Morocco), Imane Cherak (Morocco) and Youssef Rahali (Morocco).
Designed as a creative laboratory in the heart of Brussels, the world capital of comics, this residency offers artists from a wide variety of backgrounds and practices the opportunity to immerse themselves in the city, experiment, observe, and compare their worlds.
The exhibition Belgian Heroes, Views from the World highlights the impact of this immersion program: how Brussels influences, shifts, or stimulates their artistic approach, and how these international perspectives rediscover the founding figures of Belgian comic art.
Each of the artists also drew us a personal take on an iconic character from Belgian comics. Each of these creations acts as a dialogue between heritage and contemporaneity, between heritage and exploration, between Belgian comics and the imaginations of the world.
