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Belgium, Homeland of the 9th Art

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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 CENTRE FOR COMIC STRIP ART - CBBD (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 2009 BC Comics Strip and Wallonia Comics 2009

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.