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 20 years of Manga in Europe
For the past twenty years, the Asian comic strip has swept over Europe, breaking down preconceived ideas and revolutionising ways of reading, creating and publishing comic strips. Twenty years after the publication of “Akira” in Europe, the mangaka Jiro Tanigushi has become one of the most respected comic strip authors – in both Europe and the world. The exhibition at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre sets out to explore the path that goes from one to another and also highlights the reciprocal influences that feeds what you could today call the world comic strip.
24/02/2009 - 07/06/2009
www.brusselscomics.be
Centre for Comic Strip Art | rue des Sables 20 Zandstraat - 1000 Brussels |
 An exchange of views on Belgian comic strips
The exhibition sets out to present, through the viewpoint of around twenty contemporary Belgian authors, one hundred years of the international comic strip to highlight the links between the Belgian school and the major trends in the comic strip world wide.
 The worlds of Lanfeust
One day, Lanfeust, an apprentice blacksmith living in the magic world of Troy, set off on an initiatory quest after having discovered that he had supernatural powers. Like an UFO, “ Lanfeust de Troy” hit bookshops in 1994. Since then, this comic strip series of heroic fantasy, brimming over with humour and inventiveness, has won over the hearts of several million readers. With the complicity of his script writer and creator, Christophe Arleston, the exhibition at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre proposes to discover in a fun and original way the various universes born of this flagship series.
 In search of the Atom Style
The exhibition “In search of the “Atom Style’” will cast new light on an incredible line of comic strip draughtsmen from André Franquin to Yves Chaland, via Jijé, Tillieux, Will, Jidéhem, Joost Swarte, Ever Meulen, Serge Clerc or Daniel Torres. Through the generations, the style that emerged from the “Marcinelle School” has in fact been reinvested by artists keen on the multiple forms of design. What could be more normal than to have this exhibition held in the heart of the Atomium, a monument which, since 1958, enables the “Atom Style” to live in three dimensions?
 Willy Vandersteen : the Brussels epic
In the prestigious setting of Brussels City Hall, the exhibition will present the most “clear line” period of the creator of “Bob and Bobette” that saw Willy Vandersteen join the famous Editions Lombard. This panorama will also offer an opportunity to cast a modern look on a prolific and exceptional Belgian creator.
 The Sexties
In the prestigious surroundings of Brussels’ Museum of Fine Arts, this exhibition highlights the work of four authors who, thanks to their graphical and narrative audacity, have left their stamp on the evolution of the comic strip, by bringing it out of the world of childhood. In the midst of the 1960s, these four artists were inspired by Pop art, cartoons, film, music, literature and photography. Seen through the eyes of these four major artists, the exhibition draws a portrait of an era of rapid changes.
 Comic Strip...20 year later
On the 6th of October 1989, the Belgian Comic Strip Center opened its doors to the public for the first time. Over the 20 years that have gone by since then, the European comic strip has been enriched with new works and it has gone off on new tangents. To mark this anniversary, the CBBD has chosen to highlight the most remarkable comic strip creations of these past two decades. With the help of the readers of the Belgian press, the CBBD is exhibiting favourite albums from the field of contemporary and classic creation. A unique panorama that fits in neatly with the comic strip year in Brussels.
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