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Marc Sleen and Brussels
Exhibition at the Marc Sleen Museum
05/10/2011 > 04/03/2012
In 1947, Marc Sleen and his wife moved from Ghent to Brussels. They finally settled in the village of Hoeilaart in the suburbs of Brussels, which is also famous for greenhouse-grown grapes. Given the fact that Marc Sleen spent so much of his time in the Belgian capital, it is no wonder that Brussels features so prominently as the background for the adventures of his comic strip heroes. Two Nero stories are even set entirely in Brussels: De zwarte toren (The Black Tower) (1983) and De verdorven stad (Sin City) (1984).
New exhibition
Nero, Yuri Gagarin, and other astronauts
05/04/2011 > 25/09/2011
On 12 April 2011, it was fifty years ago since Russian-born Yuri Gagarin was launched into space in Vostok 1. Even though this Russian’s adventure put a human being into space for the very first time, his space travel was preceded by various comic strip heroes. Not least Nero, who as early as in 1951, already set foot onto the planet of Pompelanium in the comic strip album De zwarte voeten (The Black Feet).
Sir Marc Sleen meets American ambassador Howard Gutman
Friday 7th of February
11/02/2011
Following his visit to the community of Hoeilaart the American ambassador Howard Gutman has met Sir Marc Sleen in the Nero pub. The meeting was extremely cordial and Sir Marc Sleen had ample possibility to present his interesting career. He offered the ambassador one of the first signed copies of The Ghost of Sand Street, the first English Nero album that is released this month, as a gift. (Picture: U.S. Ambassador Gutman)
The Ghost of Sand Street
New English translation of symbolic Marc Sleen album
11/02/2011
The Marc Sleen Foundation is proud to present the first copies of a new English translation of "The Ghost of Sand Street". It is available at Slumberland Bookstore just opposite of the Marc Sleen Museum. In this visionary album Nero gets to know a ghost who haunts a deserted, spooky building, that was to become the future Marc Sleen Museum... A must-read for all fans!
Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
From 3 February until 31 May 2010
03/02/2010 > 31/05/2010
Marc Sleen’s interest in the animal kingdom was, as it were, ingested with his mother's milk.
Marc Sleen on the Tawanese television
13/08/2009
In order to complete a travel program, the Taiwanese television produced a reportage over the Comic Strip culture in Belgium. The team was really pleased of its venue, as it had the chance to interview Marc Sleen, who was, per coincidence, visiting its own museum! De reportage will be shown during the fall on the Taiwanese television, and will probably be broadcast in other Asiatic countries.
Inauguration of the Marc Sleen Museum
08/05/2009
Alongside its scientific activities, in the unique setting of what used to be a newspaper office, the Marc Sleen Foundation also proposes a standing exhibit, a reading room and series of temporary exhibits to discover the many facets of this exceptional work by a superb storyteller, a master comic strip artist and a brilliant cartoonist: Marc Sleen.
News
Marc Sleen and Brussels
05/10/2011 > 04/03/2012
In 1947, Marc Sleen and his wife moved from Ghent to Brussels. They finally settled in the village of Hoeilaart in the suburbs of Brussels, which is also famous for greenhouse-grown grapes. Given the fact that Marc Sleen spent so much of his time in the Belgian capital, it is no wonder that Brussels features so prominently as the background for the adventures of his comic strip heroes. Two Nero stories are even set entirely in Brussels: De zwarte toren (The Black Tower) (1983) and De verdorven stad (Sin City) (1984).
More info…
New exhibition
05/04/2011 > 25/09/2011
On 12 April 2011, it was fifty years ago since Russian-born Yuri Gagarin was launched into space in Vostok 1. Even though this Russian’s adventure put a human being into space for the very first time, his space travel was preceded by various comic strip heroes. Not least Nero, who as early as in 1951, already set foot onto the planet of Pompelanium in the comic strip album De zwarte voeten (The Black Feet).
More info…
Stichting Marc Sleen
Zandstraat 33-35
1000 Brussel
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
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