Comic Books
photo: Richard Harris
Sunning himself, a bigger than life size Marsupilami.
Sunning himself, a bigger than life size Marsupilami.
photo: Richard Harris
Photo: The garden of the Autrique House, Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek, Brussels
To close Brussels 2009 BD Comic Strip, the Autrique House is holding an exhibition "Births of the Comic Strip - From William Hogarth to Windsor McCay" until April 25th 2010. The show explores the various beginnings of the Ninth Art, as comic strip art is called here. The show is fascinating and the fact that it's being held at Autrique House delivers two extra treats for the visitor. One, one gets to explore at one's leisure a very early Victor Horta Art Nouveau house, and two, one gets to experience first hand, the wonder of the interior private gardens of Brussels. Standing outside the house on dusty, busy, dirty Haecht Highway, one has not an inkling that the centers of all the blocks are wonderful green zones.
Photo: The garden of the Autrique House, Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek, Brussels
To close Brussels 2009 BD Comic Strip, the Autrique House is holding an exhibition "Births of the Comic Strip - From William Hogarth to Windsor McCay" until April 25th 2010. The show explores the various beginnings of the Ninth Art, as comic strip art is called here. The show is fascinating and the fact that it's being held at Autrique House delivers two extra treats for the visitor. One, one gets to explore at one's leisure a very early Victor Horta Art Nouveau house, and two, one gets to experience first hand, the wonder of the interior private gardens of Brussels. Standing outside the house on dusty, busy, dirty Haecht Highway, one has not an inkling that the centers of all the blocks are wonderful green zones.
photo: Richard Harris
One of the many events this year for Brussels 2009 The Year of the Comic Strip, was the elaboration of the biggest single comic book pane ever produced, on the Grand' Place/Grote Markt in Brussels. Since 2009 is also the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, they decided to use an image from Tintin's adventures going to the Moon: Objectif Lune and On à Marché Sur la Lune. Serialized weekly starting in 1950, the books were published in 1953 and 1954 respectively. Hergé drove himself to exhaustion and depression completing this work; his concern for accuracy had him order the construction and design of an intricate model of the rocket so that he could draw it correctly.
I was never a Tintin fan (I found it old-fashioned and the humor puerile), and always a Spirou fan, but Hergé's talent is undeniable. We'll see if Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson are up to the task of translating Tintin to the screen. I'm dubious.
One of the many events this year for Brussels 2009 The Year of the Comic Strip, was the elaboration of the biggest single comic book pane ever produced, on the Grand' Place/Grote Markt in Brussels. Since 2009 is also the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, they decided to use an image from Tintin's adventures going to the Moon: Objectif Lune and On à Marché Sur la Lune. Serialized weekly starting in 1950, the books were published in 1953 and 1954 respectively. Hergé drove himself to exhaustion and depression completing this work; his concern for accuracy had him order the construction and design of an intricate model of the rocket so that he could draw it correctly.
I was never a Tintin fan (I found it old-fashioned and the humor puerile), and always a Spirou fan, but Hergé's talent is undeniable. We'll see if Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson are up to the task of translating Tintin to the screen. I'm dubious.