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Caption: Comic Strip Museum Brussels
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Caption: Have you ever read any famous comics during your childhood? Such as Tintin, Smurf, Spirou, Lucky Luke, Marsupilami, etc?
Do you know that they have the Comic Strip Museum in Brussels?
I went there and it was very exciting to see and learned the history.
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Caption: This giant statue as a sign where the museum is located
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Caption: If you come to visit the Belgian Comic Strip Center, you will witness the unusual marriage of the Ninth Art and Art Nouveau, two artistic forms of expression which have always been particularly cherished in Brussels. This kingdom of imagination is home to some of Belgium's best-known comic strip heroes: Tintin, Spirou, Bob and Bobette, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Blake and Mortimer, Marsupilami, etc. They are one big happy family of paper heroes. The heart of European comic strips beats in Brussels.
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Caption: View from top floor
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Caption: The display attracts attention of the visitor
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Caption: Tintin This is one the famous cartoon comic character created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (Hergé). The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century.
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Caption: They made it looks like real
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Caption: Hergé with Tintin statue
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Caption: There's unique display of each character
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Caption: The Smurfs The other famous Belgian comic character is The Smurfs. The Smurfs was first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo in 1958, where they were known as Les Schtroumpfs. There are more than one hundred Smurf characters, and their names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics.
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Caption: If you read the comics, this picture is familiar
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Caption: The first sketches of smurfs figures
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Caption: They also have the Papa Smurf's real cape!
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Caption: Lucky Luke My other favorite character than Tintin and The Smurfs, is Lucky Luke.
And I was surprised that they make the small area with the real wood door for the entrance. With his shadow!
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Caption: Marsupilami
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Caption: Spirou
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Caption: With more than 700 comic strip authors, Belgium has more comic strip artists per square kilometre than any other country in the world! It is here that the comic strip has grown from a popular medium into an art in its own right. Nowhere else comics are so strongly rooted in reality and in people's imagination.
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Caption: Walk around in the museum and you will find so many interesting things there
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Caption: And so many cartoon characters
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Caption: And they show the progress
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Caption: If you happen to be in Brussels, and have an extra time to visit this museum, this place is a worth visit place specially for comic maniac. It's located in one of the oldest districts of Brussels, just a few steps away from Grand’Place and the Royal district.
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