Belgian Comic Strip Center, Brussels

Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
visit(arrobe)comicscenter.net

Philastrip Albums

Since 1994 the Belgian Comic Strip Center has published a valuable collector's album in small format with every edition of a comic strip stamp. These booklets pay homage to comic strip authors and their world and have been published in French and mostly also in Duthc. They usually contain adventures which have never before been published in album form.

These valuable mini-albums – numbered and, where possible, signed – also contain the stamp(s) in question with the first day's postmark. These characteristics make them much-valued collector's items, sought after by comic strip as well as stamp collectors.

Because of the series' popularity, the Belgian Comic Strip Center has decided to expand the editions of these Philastrip albums to subjects outside the field of comics which can nevertheless be related to a particular comic strip author's work.

Characteristics of the albums:
215 x 155 mm format, four colours, numbered, including one or more stamps with first day's postmark. Normal edition: hardcover – luxury edition: cloth-bound hardcover. Each album have been published in a Dutch and French edition (German edition also for XIII, 2004).

Finally, specially for France (therefore only available in French), the Belgian Comic Strip Center has devoted a series of mini-albums to Boule et Bill ('Envois de toutes les couleurs', Fête du Timbre 2002) and Lucky Luke ('Envois express', Fête du Timbre 2003).

The Philastrip Collection is available in all good comic strip shops, at the Belgian Comic Strip Center and in the « Philaboutiques » of the Belgian Postal Service.

Practical Information:
Tine Anthoni or Marc Renders
Phone: +32 2 219 19 80 – visit(arrobe)comicscenter.net

Published Albums