Tag Archive | "Belgium"

From our continental correspondent – Schrauwen in Space

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Connoisseurs of small but delicate comics work have a good excuse to plan a short trip to Antwerp for tomorrow.  On Friday 25th May, a delightful exhibition of original drawings and prints by celebrated New Flemish Name Olivier Schrauwen will open in the Bries Space, a small-scale art centre run by the same people behind [...]

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Sarah’s literary travels

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Sarah McIntyre has been off on her travels to Belgium and the Netherlands, and of course she took some time to explore some lovely bookstores and pick up a fine haul of French language comics and children’s illustrated books. There are some lovely pics up on her blog of some fabulous looking old and new [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Comics month at Sterling

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Sterling Books, the finest purveyor of English-language books in Brussels, is celebrating comics month this month.  All through March, special events will be organised, with competitions, interviews and lots more. On this glorious  occasion, they invited a number of cartoonists and illustrators from Brighton University to add some décor to their shop windows.  On their [...]

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Judith Vanistendael in Brussels

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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The excellent Belgian comics creator Judith Vanistendael will be at the Librairie Galerie Brusel, 100 Boulevard Anspach, on the 20th of January at 6pm to promote her new book David, les Femmes et la Mort, being published by Le Lombard. It’s an intriguing looking tale of a man facing almost certain death after a cancer [...]

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Douglas Noble on Strip Turnhout

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Top UK comics creator Douglas Noble reports from the recent Strip Turnhout comics bash in Belgium. Doug and several other UK comics folk – Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Karrie Fransman and Rachel Emily Taylor – were over to fly the flag for the Brit comics scene, taking part in the Crossmedia exhibition event during Strip Turnhout. [...]

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Tillieux in Brussels

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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The Maison de la Bande Dessinée in Brussels, near the Gare du Midi, may be less well-known than the Belgian Comic Strip Museum, but it is equally deserving of your visit.  That is, if you are a comic buff who is mad about original art.  Don’t expect any animation activities (except for some lone colouring [...]

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Vive la BD!

Friday, September 16, 2011

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We know from our regular European Corrrespondent Wim that Belgium and Brussels loves its comics so much they have an actual festival celebrating bande dessinee to celebrate and promote their comics culture (if only we had that here, imagine…). Christoph has posted up a good, long video of one of the nocturnal celebrations of the [...]

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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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