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My Muse is Lounging on the Sofa
Contemporary absurdism ahoy in Wide Vercnocke’s ode to his sofa. My Muse is Lounging on the Sofa by Wide Vercnocke This is the titanic tale of a man…
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Odalisques & Cylinders
We explore the titanic combination of Bastien Vivés and Ruppert and Mulot and look at Joris Van de Moortel’s use of comics to present his art books. Cylinder 1-2…
Desert Island Comics
This time around a special edition of Crossing Borders. The United Kingdom’s most popular comics blog, the Forbidden Planet blog has a feature where comics industry people name their favourite…
Spirou’s 75th Anniversary and the Tragedy of Siblings
Celebrating 75 years of Spirou and a review of the heartbreaking story of Lea by Zidrou and Springers. 75 Years Of Spirou The first character created explicitly to promote a…
Madame Pipi And The Excess Of Human Nature
A new creator rises from Belgium’s pool of talent with a misanthropic view on life plus free webcomics from Bastien Vivés. Delitoon Set up as the premiere web portal for…
Michael Borremans’ Magnetics and Brussels in Shorts
Exploring Brussels in 10 graphic short stories and fine art painter Michaël Borremans doing… mini-comics? Magnetics by Michaël Borremans Reproduction of original artwork is one of the many concerns of…
White Cube: Art vs Comics in the Facebook Age
Art versus comics in the Facebook age! Only in the quirky mind of new promising talent Brecht Vandenbroucke. Art versus comics, the big debate rages on but not within the…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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