Belgium, Homeland of the 9th Art

Belgium is the homeland of the comic strip, both for its large number of authors and their immense resourcefulness.
They have decorated Brussels metro stations, given their names to certain streets, they have their own centre (the famous CBBD), their schools and even statues of their characters in public places.

Tintin, Spirou, Lucky Luke, Gaston Lagaffe, the Smurfs, Boule and Bill, Blake and Mortimer, Buck Danny, Spike and Suzy, Tif et Tondu, Rick Hochet, Cubitus, Natacha, Yoko Tsuno, Largo Winch ... the list is way too long to enumerate all the comic strip heroes born here. Since Hergé, Morris and Franquin up to Philippe Geluk, more than 700 authors have made our country the homeland of the 9th Art.

Our comic strip drawers are aware of the fact that they practice a different kind of art and explore different graphic directions. They also have typical style and do not shy away from some irony with regards to social topics.

Discover the BELGIAN CENTRE FOR COMIC STRIP ART - CBBD (BRUXELLES), THE COMIC STRIP HOUSE (BRUXELLES), the RAYMOND LEBLANC FOUNDATION (SAINT-GILLES) and NINE CITY (SCHAERBEEK)

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