Tag Archive | "Belgium"

Anima rocks Brussels again !

Monday, March 7, 2011

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From March 4th through to the  13th, the thirtieth edition of Anima, the International Animation Film Festival of Brussels, will take place, kicking off with The Borrower Arrietty, the latest film from the famed Studio Ghibli (a huge fave of ours – Joe).  Over the next ten days the festival will screen no less than one [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Nero speaks English

Thursday, February 17, 2011

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Good news for those among you who would like to know more about the rich Flemish comics culture.  One of our most beloved icons, Marc Sleen’s Nero, has just had one of his albums released in English.  The book, The Ghost of the Sand Street, was translated because many tourists who visited the Brussels Comics [...]

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Herge Museum director quits

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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The Belgian economic weekly Trends/Tendances reports that Laurent de Froberville has resigned from his job as director of the Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve on New Year’s eve.  De Froberville takes this decision a mere three years after his appointment and only a year and a half after the museum opened its doors.  De Froberville has [...]

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Bagge on Belgium

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Fans of Peter Bagge, take note : in the third (or actually, the fourth) issue of the Belgian”graphical press” El Rios, Bagge makes fun of how little he and his fellow Americans know about our little country by the sea.  El Rios is a beautiful publication by the Brussels design studio Coiffeurs Pour Dames, who [...]

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Gray Croucher remembered

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Gray Croucher, the British cartoonist who introduced generations of Flemish children to the joys of comics, would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate this a book has been published by the local historical society of Oostkamp, where he used to live. Croucher, who was born in 1920 as Lionel Graham Croucher in Porsmouth, [...]

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New work by Ever Meulen in Brussels

Thursday, November 25, 2010

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Cars have always been a major theme in the work of Belgian master illustrator Ever Meulen, especially the so-called vintage makes.  For the Flemish daily De Standaard, Meulen did a series on the history of classic cars, and he himself is the proud owner of a 1949 Oldsmobile. For his new exhibition, Essence(s), which is [...]

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Give me the moonlight…

Monday, October 4, 2010

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I’m not going to post another review of Belgian artist Judith Vanistendael’s newly released Dance by the Light of the Moon, as Richard posted a lovely review of it only a few days ago. But having had some time over the weekend to sit back and read it thoroughly myself I couldn’t resist posting a [...]

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Kamagurka’s heroes

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Even though he’s still quite active as a cartoonist, either with his own strips or working on Cowboy Henk with Herr Seele, the focus in his creatieve work seems to have shifted over the years to his fine art painting.  From September 26th until October 25th, a selection of these paintings will be on display [...]

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The dark past of a seminal cartoonist

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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For a few years now, rumours had been circulating about celebrated seminal Flemish cartoonist and comic artist Willy Vandersteen’s activities during World War II.  Comic historians discovered illustrations and cartoons in books and magazines published during German occupation time, which sympathised with the occupying forces or even presented a blatantly anti-Semitic sentiment.  The style of [...]

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If you don’t know where to go…

Friday, September 10, 2010

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After the summer holidays, it would seem that a new comics festival season is in full effect all over Europe.  Here is a selection of some of the comics/bande dessinee fairs and festivals that will vie for your attention over the next few weeks in Europe: Brussels celebrates its ninth Comics Festival on the weekend [...]

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Judith Vanistendael in London

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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As Tom Spurgeon would put it on Comics Reporter, if I were in London I’d go to this: Belgian artist Judith Vanistendael’s semi autobiographical Dance by the Light of the Moon is one of the titles I’ve really been looking forward to in this autumn’s releases, not least because Wim has said good things of [...]

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The comics labyrinth

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Every year in the summer, in a field near the Belgian town of Barvaux, a labyrinth is built.  Or rather, it is sown, as the walls of the labyrinth are made of huge corn stalks, which makes finding your way relatively easy in the beginning, but much harder as the corn grows. Just walking around [...]

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Guy Dessicy, The Last Witness. Part 3 : The Belgian Comic Strip Centre. And Pink Floyd.

Friday, April 30, 2010

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In the first part of our interview with Guy Dessicy we were told of how he met Tintin creator Hergé, how he became part of what would become the famed Studios Hergé and how he was involved in the foundation of Tintin Magazine.  In the second part, Dessecy told of the creation of Publiart, of [...]

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Guy Dessicy, The Last Witness. Part 2 : Publiart, Belvision and Vandersteen.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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In the first part of our interview with Guy Dessicy we were told of how he met Tintin creator Hergé, how he became part of what would become the famed Studios Hergé and how he was involved in the foundation of Tintin Magazine.  In this second part, Dessicy tells of the creation of Publiart, of [...]

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Guy Dessicy, the last witness : Hergé, Leblanc and Abdallah

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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74 years ago he got to know Hergé, the beginning of a lifelong friendship which would last up to the deathbed of the Brussels artist. That meeting was also the beginning of an impressive career in the shadow of virtually all major Belgian comic artists of the twentieth century. With the help of Hec Leemans, [...]

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