urn:uuid:a2244d18-4a07-788e-c7e1-1944ec645043 2026-04-03T23:09:36+02:00 Comic Art Museum - Brussels urn:uuid:4c53edfc-6070-7e4a-dcfc-4bb2d2afe480 2026-03-30T11:10:43+02:00

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Rasmus Klump, the famous Danish bear cub who has captivated readers for generations. This exceptional exhibition invites you to explore the work of Carla and Vilhelm Hansen, the artist couple who created this iconic character, while also showcasing his modern reinvention and new adventures. Rediscover Rasmus Klump through original illustrations, anecdotes about his creation and contemporary interpretations that perpetuate his joyful, timeless spirit. Explore his maritime adventures and his values of friendship, curiosity and mutual aid. The Rasmus Klump exhibition is a family event not to be missed, for the young and old alike! Curator: Sarah Courdé With the support of the Brussels Capital Region. 

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Between 10 days and a month: this is the time spent by eight international comic artists at the Maison Marc Sleen between September and December 2025 as part of the international residency program organized by the Comic Strip Museum: Inês Louro (Portugal), Kachisou (Portugal), Afif Khaled (France), El Diablo (Québec), Caroline Lavergne (Québec), Mohamed Haiti (Morocco), Imane Cherak (Morocco) and Youssef Rahali (Morocco). Designed as a creative laboratory in the heart of Brussels, the world capital of comics, this residency offers artists from a wide variety of backgrounds and practices the opportunity to immerse themselves in the city, experiment, observe, and compare their worlds. The exhibition Belgian Heroes, Views from the World highlights the impact of this immersion program: how Brussels influences, shifts, or stimulates their artistic approach, and how these international perspectives rediscover the founding figures of Belgian comic art. Each of the artists also drew us a personal take on an iconic character from Belgian comics. Each of these creations acts as a dialogue between heritage and contemporaneity, between heritage and exploration, between Belgian comics and the imaginations of the world.

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The Comic Art Museum is pleased to invite you to discover the ‘33/35’ exhibition. It is the culmination of an artist residency that brought together six talented comic book authors for 10 months: Marion Chancerel, Philippe Dupuy, Abdel de Bruxelles, Adeline Casier, Tony Poulin and Noélia Diaz Iglesias.The exhibition also features the work of three foreign artists who each stayed in the residency for a month: Youssef Rahali and Oumaima El Gamraoui from Morocco and Ana Margarida Matos from Portugal.With several excerpts from their work, the exhibition highlights the artists' individual trajectory and, at the same time, their collective project “33/35”. This poetic album describes the road they travel every day to the studio. It is an immersive experience that celebrates the diversity of their artistic approaches.Travel with us to the heart of the contemporary world of comics.Curators: Isabelle Debekker & Jérôme Puigros-Puigener With the support of the players of the National Lottery.

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In 2021, the Comic Art Museum launched Le Dessableur, a bilingual journal devoted to the history and study of comics. The title was inspired by “Rue des Sables,” the street where the museum is located. Conceived as a complement to the museum’s exhibitions, the journal explores themes that would not easily fit within traditional scenography. Each issue takes a closer look at specific aspects of comics—speech balloons, cutaway views, collage, subjective viewpoints, photo comics, silent comics, and autobiographical comics—offering new ways to look at the comic book artform. The journal places great importance on publishing original content by commissioning covers from contemporary artists, presenting previously unpublished comic strips and pages, and developing its own drawn reportages. Le Dessableur serves not only as a platform for art analysis but also a space for artistic creation and experimentation. In just five years and nearly twenty issues, Le Dessableur has established itself as a prolific laboratory where research, history and artistic practice meet.

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Scattered across the millions of panels and magazine pages collected by Alain Van Passen, there is a secret and long forgotten history of vibrant, surrealist, breath-taking, even ‘visionary’ images. The Belgian collector was active from the earliest days of the comics clubs which campaigned for the recognition of comics as an art form worthy of study and critique. His pristine collection, built over decades of searching and exchanging, offers us unprecedented insight into the diverse trajectories of twentieth century popular publishing. Focusing on comics magazines published between 1935 and 1965, this exhibition reveals a lost world of French and Belgian comics and their translations and reworkings of American, British and Italian imports, across the genres of humour, science fiction, history and adventure. Shedding light on often forgotten or little-known artists, the exhibition traces a counter history of French-language comics in which new stars will be born and images long forgotten unveiled for the 2020s.     Curators: Hugo Frey & Maaheen Ahmed, in collaboration with Jan Baetens, Benoît Crucifix, Felipe Muhr and Eva Van de Wiele. Partners: Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University and Leuven University Press. With the support of the players of the National Lottery.

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Meet Brume! A mischievous little girl who dreams of just one thing: becoming a witch! One day, when she gets her hands on a book of spells, she immediatly gets to work. She stubbornly recruits a little pig named Hubert as her assistant and befriends Hugo, a boy eager to lend a hand. But there's just one problem... Brume doesn’t seem to have any magical talent. Her spells don’t work, and her first potion creates a massive fog that covers the entire village! Still, Brume is undeterred. Convinced of her powers, she heads into the forbidden forest to confront the legendary dragon she believes is behind the foul fog. Stubborn, bold, and a little overconfident, Brume drags Hugo and HUbert on a wild adventure full of surprises. What if she truly does have an extraordinary gift? Discover this fun gang and their exciting adventures this summer at the Comic Art Museum.

urn:uuid:27a808ea-5f06-1176-5c37-8b011ecde81c 2025-06-10T09:46:55+02:00

Whether in the form of leporellos, pop-ups, folds, cut-outs, or books with other surprising formats, livres-objets are creations where form is just as important as content.While the English term artist’s book is often used, it typically refers to the book as a vehicle for artistic expression. This exhibition, however, deliberately retains the French term livre-objet (French for book-object), to emphasize a fundamental principle: that form and content stand on equal ground. Comics, too, have explored this terrain—though such experiments remained relatively rare throughout the twentieth century. It was only from the mid-2000s onward that the production of comics as livres-objets began to flourish. In tandem with the rise of blogs and webcomics, and in response to the dominance of screens, the Ninth Art reaffirmed its bond to the object, to materiality, and to the tactile. These works are costly to manufacture and time-consuming to make by hand. As a result, they are typically produced in small print runs and seldom reissued. The recent surge in paper prices may already signal the end of this prolific era.This exhibition presents a diverse selection of livres-objets, including a number of unique and rarely seen pieces.

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Asterix celebrates his 65th birthday, which calls for a proper celebration! Therefore, for this occasion, the little dog Dogmatix gets his own exhibition for the first time.Retrospective and playful, those are the two key words to describe this exhibition. Visitors can discover how the character Dogmatix developed over the course of the albums, from his first appearance in Asterix and the Banquet to his own animated series Dogmatix and the Indomitables. From a little dog with no name passing in an album to Obelix's indispensable, loyal companion, Dogmatix emerged as an endearing hero and conquered so many hearts. Delve into the story of Dogmatix with archive documents, original records and so much more. A chance to discover this delightful universe as a family, ideal also for the little ones with custom-designed games.With Dogmatix and his friends, the Comic Art Museum celebrates the humour, friendship and universal values of a cult series, to be enjoyed to the full!In collaboration with publisher Albert René and the Institut René Goscinny.

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Jazz and comic books have a special connection. Several comic books took inspiration from the music in terms of atmosphere, history and iconic artists. This summer, the Comic Art Museum collaborates with the Maison du Jazz in Liege and together we present an exhibition celebrating the crossover of jazz and comic art. The exhibition puts forward the Belgian creative output and the variety of styles, showing the strength and dynamism of the theme. Over the years, comic artists have written powerful stories and graphic scores in which the power of line or colour determines the rhythm and tempo.The works on display, including those by Louis Joos - renowned master of black and white - are an opportunity to rediscover these two worlds and enjoy extraordinary melodies!