Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
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The Study Library
The Belgian Comic Strip Center houses probably the most important public comic strip library with the largest number of titles in the world. The study library contains the complete collection of albums, periodicals and reference works owned by the Belgian Comic Strip Center. Opening hours are slightly different from the Belgian Comic Strip Center's and the collection is only available for consultation on site.
Tuesday to Thursday: 12 to 5pm – Friday: 12 to 6pm
Friday: 12 à 18 heures
Saturday: 10am to 6pm
Closed on Sundays and Mondays.
Attention: access for over 16 years only.
The collection of the study library will be soon available on line!
What interest would one take in a Belgian Comic Strip Center without comic albums? Before the Centre’s opening already, numerous publishers at home and abroad started actively supporting the assembly of a collection. Thanks to this precious aid, the library has become nowadays the largest public comic strip library in the world.
List of the partners of the Library
Publishers:
12 bis, Adonis, Age d'Or, A.Li.En, Arcadia, Audie, Fluide Glacial, Azeko, Bamboo, Balloon Books, Ballon Media, BD Must, Brabant Strip, Caravelle, Casterman, Champaka, Dargaud, Delcourt, Dupuis, Drugstore, Glénat, Graton, Hibou, Hugo&Cie, Humanoïdes Associés, IKU Comics, Joker, Jungle, Kana Le Gang, Lombard, Loup, Lucky Comics, Milan, Oogachtend, Paquet, Saga Uitgaven, Sarbacane, Schetter, Several Pictures, Soleil Production, Standaard Uitgeverij, Studio 100, Topgame, Treize Etrange, Triomphe, Vents d'Ouest, Zenda
Periodicals:
Les Amis de Hergé, Les Amis de Jacobs, L’Avis des Bulles, Belzébulle, Blam!, BoDoï, Brabant Strip, Le Collectionneur de BD, Delcourt Comics, Echo des Savanes, Fluide Glacial, Gabriel, Hop!, L’Inédit, Juve Bêdê, Lanfeust Mag, LDC Bédégramme, Lucha Libre, Myx Stripmagazine, P@per, Plots, Poison, Psikopat, Revue Reflets, Shogun, Spirou, Le Strip, Stripburger, Strip Gids, Strip Nieuws, Stripschrift, Tchô!, Trama, Viz, Zone 5300, Zozolala
Last News
Next great exhibition
European Comic Strip Treasures
05/10/2010 > 27/02/2011
At a time when Belgium is holding the presidency of the European Union, the Belgian Comic Centre is delighting the general public with an exceptional selection of original comic strips extracted from so many major works produced by European comic strip artists and writers in the last one hundred years.
Great exhibition
The studio of Franquin, Jijé, Morris and Will
15/06/2010 > 30/01/2011
This exhibition, initiated by Isabelle, André Franquin’s daughter, and with the support of the artist Frédéric Jannin is neither an exhaustive record nor an informative account of La Bande des Quatre. Rather, it is a declaration of love.
Great exhibition
Moomin
02/03/2010 > 29/08/2010
Tove Jansson’s Dreamworld
Popularised around the world through comic strips, the Moomin series is above all a rich and sensitive body of comic strip work, created by Tove Jansson (1914-2001), an essential Finnish illustrator and author.