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Tintin creator, Hergé gets his own museum.

le-musee-herge

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, [...]

Bande dessine the 9th Art, a brief explanation.

Comics, Manga, pictorial narratives. BD “bande dessine”, not to be confused with “BD Blue-ray Disc”, along with manga, Japan, and comics, USA, is one of the three great traditions of pictorial narrative. You have seen it around, really you have you may just not know that you have. Astérix, Lucky Luke, Marsupilami, The Smurfs, Tintin [...]