On our second day in Brussels Luke insisted we visited The Belgian Comic Strip Centre. Dubbed as the land of Smurfs and Tintin, I agreed with extreme excitement! We discovered a range of exhibitions, illustrated with original comic strip drawings alongside unique objects.
The Belgian Comic Strip Centre is also the former Waucquez Warehouse, a building created by Victor Horta in 1906 in the realm of Art Nouveau architecture. Luke fancies himself as a bit of an architecture enthusiast, and as he is an illustrator and has had a strong background of study within comic books, this was his dream day out!
So as we spent the day wandering through original art work by the likes of Marten Toonton and Posy Simmonds, I found myself lost in a world of the history of an art form that I had never taken the time to appreciate before. Seeing the drawings of the popular Tin Tin and Snowy brought back some like minded childhood memories for us both! It soon became clear when walking around the rest of the city as well as the museum that this favourable pair are somewhat of a national treasure in Belgium. The series of comic albums where created by artist Georges Remi in 1929 and have now been printed in over 50 languages and have sold over 200 million copies to date.
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