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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.
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.
Marc Sleen (Gentbrugge, 1922) is an eminent member of the upper crust of Belgian comic strip artists. In the 40s and 50s, he created as many as six series simultaneously, but the real source of his reputation and popularity is his Nero comic strip, optimistic and funny, targeting the general public. Steen uses sparkling wit, constant inventiveness and boundless imagination to tell the story of a family as eccentric as it is charming. Gags, pranks and puns add zest to their fabulous adventures.
In 2009, the work of Marc Sleen, a living legend of Belgian comic strip art in Flemish, is officially transferred to rue des Sables in Brussels, just across from the Belgian Comic Strip Center, in the new foundation named after him. The choice of a building in Rue des Sables was no accident. In this same street, just a few yards away from the new Marc Sleen Foundation, Nero first saw the light in 1947. At the time, the artist was an illustrator and cartoonist for “De Nieuwe Gids”, a daily paper. From his desk on the first floor in the layout section, Marc Steen saw the windows of the former Magasins Waucquez, the future Belgian Comic Strip Center, every time he looked up. By setting out in
By setting up in rue des Sables, the Marc Sleen Museum has doubled back in time – the hero of more than 200 comic books has come back home. The address is also a new homage to a great Belgian artist.
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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).
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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).
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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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