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 Belgian Comic Strip Centre - BCSC (BRUXELLES)), 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.

Brussels 2010 BC Comics Strip and Wallonia Comics 2010

All year long we pay tribute to the Comic Strip in Wallonia and Brussels. A whole lot of events and activities await you to (re)discover the Ninth Art, its artists and its heroes.

An exciting story, to be continued on…

Comic strip year in Wallonia
Wallonia comic strip 2009

Brussels 2009 BD Comics Strip, comic strip year in Brussels
Brussels 2009 BD Comics Strip

Wallonie BD 2009 Brussels 2009 BD Comics Strip