Tag Archive | "Bries"

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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From our continental correspondent – Play it cool with Philip Pacquet

Friday, June 11, 2010

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Thanks to Monsieur Bandit, the website of Belgian writer, art connoisseur and general cool guy Gilliom, we can show you extracts from Playin’ / Smilin’ / Fightin’ / Cookin’ With The Vertigo Quartet, the new book by Belgian cartoonist Philip Pacquet. It’s a collection of short stories drenched in an atmosphere of jazz and coolness, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Boerke online!

Friday, April 23, 2010

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One of the best things to come out of the Belgian comics scene these past few years, is Pieter De Poortere’s Boerke. This strip, drawn in a ligne claire-meets-Hello Kitty style, chronicles the continuing trials and tribulations of an all-too-recognisable everyman, who is egocentric, petty and materialistic, and at the same time heroic, empathic and [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – Willy Linthout missing SPX

Saturday, September 19, 2009

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The Small Press Expo, which will be held over Saturday  September 26th  and Sunday September 27th in Bethesda, Maryland, had announced Willy Linthout as one of the main guests of this year’s gathering, along with mini-comix king John Porcellino. (the poster art for SPX 2009 by Gahan Wilson) We’ve written about Linthout before on the [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation Please: Iedereen Op Zoek

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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There’s this guy who’s so wrapped up in his daily cubicle life that he treats his electric appliances as his children. And then there’s the racist skinhead who is at a loss when a black woman asks him a simple question in the flowers stall where he works. Oh, and then there’s the little girl [...]

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