The Belgian Comic Strip Center - Museum Brussels

What's a heroine ? What women have had an influence on the history of comics? Why are they so little known compared to their male colleagues? We invite you to participate in a workshop where we…

A nice occasion to discover our exhibitions !

To serve you better the Brasserie of the Museum will be closed from 08 till 22 January. See you at the end of the month !

Until December the 31st, the new but already famous MIMA Museum hosts an exhibition called Art is Comic. As our own exhibition The new Wave of Flemish Comic Strip, it forecast creativity and…

Even on Sunday and on May 1st ! See you soon !

On the occasion of our Gallery exhibition dedicated to a book about the Declaration of Human Rights, we organise a meet & greet with the two authors followed by a signing session. Entrance to the…

Book your place for the screening of Miss Hokusai (JAP sbt ENG), followed by a speech of its director Mr Keiichi Hara. On the 27 of September, from 6pm. Booking at info@bx.mofa.go.jap. In…

This weekend, the Parc Royal hosts the Comic Strip Festival... But the Festival invests the entire city !Take the Mini Train with the BD Pass and visit us, as well as many other comic strip places.…

Very often Smurf fans all over the world will gather to dress up as Smurfs together. They will run a marathon in Smurf style, organise a flashmob with Smurf dances and have a lot of fun together.…

Following the succes of the last two years, the Comic Museum re-organizes a Workshop for Comic Creators. This yearly event offers young creators an opportunity to meet publishers. It will take…

In order to serve you even better in the future, Brasserie Horta will be closed for renovation between the 18th and the 31st of January.

Following the security recommendations for the Brussels Capital Region the Comics Art Museum will be closed for the public this weekend. 

Besides two previously announced tours in July (09 and 23/07), we decided to organise activities for families visiting the museum on each Sunday in August. The participation to the activities is…

In tribute to the attack in Paris, we are casting in the hall of the museum a selection of cartoons done in reactionto this sad event. www.youtube.com/watch?v=za_PuipaXw8

Time has come to vote for the Museum Price!Vote for your favorite museum (the BCSC for example) on the following website: http://www.museumprijs.be/publieksprijs-2013Brussels' museums are on the…

Fifty years after their birth, the Smurfs remain among the most popular characters ever created by a Belgian comic strip author.

Before becoming a comic strip album by Baru, one of today’s masters of the comic strip, Canicule was a sombre and passionate novel by Jean Vautrin. This exhibition staged by CBBD is a first of…

The first thing is his emotions about graphic art in his early childhood. At the age of 10 or thereabouts, he finds himself leafing through some strange magazine, coming from the side of Europe. He…

It was in Tintin magazine that Grzegorz Rosinski and Jean Van Hamme created Thorgal, an epic family saga sometimes tinged with fantasy. This comic strip was to become tremendously successful – so…

After studying economics and business administration, Jean Van Hamme (Brussels, 1939) held a high-ranking post in a major multinational company. He then abandoned his career overnight to devote…

An ardent admirer of Franquin, Gotlib and the Monty Python team, Brussels-born Frédéric Jannin (Uccle, 1956) published his first comic strips in a tabloid rock magazine. As the author of the…

Master of direct colour and illustrator par excellence, Frank Pé – who signs his work Frank – produced a heart-warming depiction of his love of nature in Broussaille and Zoo. Broussaille,…

Imaginary worlds feature prominently in comic strips but Étienne Davodeau prefers to base his stories on real life and take his inspiration from his homeland and family and friends. Davodeau…

There comes a day when a comic strip reader is so struck by the cover image of an album that he sees it as part and parcel of the album illustrations. When that happens it’s for life. Cover art…

Gipi (Gianni Alfonso Pacinotti) was born in Pisa in 1963 and produces illustrations for publishing houses, and also regularly works on collaborations with the Italian press. In 2006, he shot into…

One fine day, at the height of their career, Goscinny and Uderzo decided to tell the story of the adventures of Asterix among the Belgians, after already putting him through some laugh-out-loud…

Zidrou (Benoît Drousie) began his career as a teacher. He then caught the writing bug and in 1992 he collaborated on the scenario's of 'Sac à Puces' and he began writing satirical strips for the…

This new generation of authors born to a region renowned for the immense popularity of its family comic strips is inspired by far-away horizons rather than by local material. Despite their artistic…

From Marc Dacier to Ric Hochet or from Cedric, Tamara, Nero, Kiekeboe or Lucky Luke to Jeannette Pointu or Largo Winch, the exhibition invites you to travel through history of Media, documentated…

The decision to devote a major exhibition to Chinese comic strips one day was made some time ago and now the Belgian Comic Strip Center is delighted to announce “A Panorama of Chinese Comic…

It has taken this outstanding graphic novel artist just less than two decades to rise to prominence on the Franco-Belgian comic strip art scene. Her powerfully inspired and profoundly humanist work…

Once upon a time, somewhere between the lakes and the forests of the Province of Quebec, there was a small village community as there are so many others in the world: a few families, a handful of…

In the early 1980s, the then little-known Belgian illustrator, Willy Linthout (1953), came up with the idea of creating a comic strip about the Belgian comic Urbanus (1949), who was already famous…

When the manager of a punk rock group – a scenario writer – teams up with the lyric writer for a rock band – an artist – it may result in a comic strip album that creates quite a stir! A…

Finland has had a great comic book tradition for many years. The country’s most famous author is the artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001), whose Moomin tales have travelled the world. What is more,…

The collaboration between Luc Cromheecke and Sti has resulted in one of the funniest comic strip series ever. We already know that Luc Cromheecke has a fantastic feeling for comic strip humour from…

Artist Barly Baruti, the standard-bearer of comic strip creation in Africa, heads an oeuvre unequalled in the Green Continent. Baruti’s works were published regularly in Europe before he decided…

Brussels has always been a magnet for artists, especially comic strip writers. The ‘Brussels in Shorts’ creation project has given young authors the opportunity to (re)discover the city and to…

Among the hundreds of original albums published every year in autumn, some are more worthy of consideration than others. Why? Because they make a stronger graphic impression. Or because the…

This is the remarkable achievement of an artist turned author, a man of distinction. After a career spanning 45 years in the world of comic strip art, Benn has managed to rid himself of the ‘big…

Even though Wauter Mannaert’s career as a comic strip artist is certainly still in its infancy, we can already say that El Mesías is a first magnum opus.  It is impressive, not particularly in…

This is a highly original comic book, which the Belgian Comics Art Museum now has great pleasure in introducing in the Gallery. Comic strip artist, Sylvain Savoia, tells the story of his…

This summer we have decided to exhibit a lovely comic book based on an animal story that will appeal both to the young and old. However, do not be deceived by its sweet appearance because the story…

No, it’s not the thrilling adventures of a comic strip hero … Sean Chuang’s 80s Diary in Taiwan is all about him. It’s an authentic tale of his childhood in Taipei at a pivotal moment in…

Of all the famous comic strip spin-offs, there are only few that have had as much success as Amoras. This six-part cycle, which was launched two years prior to Spike and Suzy’s 70th anniversary,…

South Korea is without a doubt one of the most interesting Asian countries when it comes to comic strip art. Whereas the country obviously excels in ‘webtoons’ or digital comics, many authors…

History is being written as we speak. Cuba is now opening itself up to the world and also discovering modern comic strip art. Undoubtedly, the eighteen Cuban authors who are exhibiting in this…

‘Salto’, which is a first collaboration between Mark Bellido and Judith Vanistendael, is enjoying a tremendous success. We featured Bellido and his previous graphic novel ‘El Mesías’ in…

The Comic Strip Center is particularly pleased to welcome Mon frère le chasseur to its Gallery. In this hard-hitting story, Sarah Herlant delivers a powerful, extremely moving account of the…

In 1968, Raoul Cauvin created the Bluecoats series for Salvé (Louis Salvérius), who, like him, was working for the publishing company Dupuis. The series consisted of humorous short stories…

What an excellent idea to allow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to have its say! It tells us its history, its hopes, its values to be preserved: “I am not just a package of rights. I…

In times when comic strip magazines are becoming ever thinner on the ground, the Comic Strip Museum aims to encourage initiatives that offer upcoming authors a platform to show off their skill.…

Some comic strip characters capture our imagination to such an extent that we almost forget that they actually only play a minor part. Fanny is just such an example. When she first appeared upon…

The cover captures our imagination on the spot because of the finesse of the drawings and the abundance of colour. Its great depth and sheer poetry simply draw us into the story… Welcome to TER,…

The new series Le Règne, which is a first collaboration of two highly talented authors, promises some very entertaining reading.  The script was written by Sylvain Runberg, who specialises in…

Peter Van Dongens’ crystal-clear style combined with his meticulous historical research are just the perfect combination for bringing long bygone times back to life. The graphic novel Rampokan is…

“Can you laugh about anything”? Dodo and Cha certainly think so, as we can see from this album. Dodo, the scriptwriter, takes us in pursuit of his protagonists to Syrakia, in a tragicomedy…

The Aire Libre collection, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, is a real Ali Baba’s cave. And Philippe Aymond’s new oeuvre is a pure reflection of it. Created in direct colour by a man…