Some kid was giggling. From my seat I could see him I wanted to tell him to “Shut up don’t you know this is serious” but then – it erupted all around me, Captain Haddock from the safety of the doorway issued instructions to the hapless Tin Tin as he balanced of a sharks tail [...]
It was a wet Sunday, I turned south and drove towards Louvain-la-Neuve and the museum, Musee Hergé designed as a focal point for one of the best loved creators of the twentieth century. It’s a long way. I can’t imagine why the museum is located way out here. What were they thinking I keep thinking, [...]
One of my favourite comic book series is Une aventure de John Difool. This is the source that director Luc Besson borrowed heavily from to make one of my also favourite (coincidently) movies The Fifth Element. One of the creators of John Difool and the L’Incal series was Jodorowsky, a great visual director took the [...]
I’m early, I think but I’m passing erstwhile young men with plastic bags hurrying from Kings comics chattering away comparing their coveted preferences in hand as they head to the next venue, Comic Kingdom. They were earlier. I hope the queue isn’t going to be to long. They’ll be disappointed, Comic Kingdom is disorganized and [...]
Easy going Gaston Lagaffe was created by André Franquin for the February 28, 1957 issue of Le journal de Spirou as a light hearted glimpse of life behind the scenes at the paper. Gaston is a blundering office clerk with a great sense of humour and remarkable lack of common sense who spends a lot [...]
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