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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.
Already at a young age he was, accompanied by his father, a weekly visitor of Antwerp Zoo. In 1961 he was able to realize his dream, and he travelled to East Africa for the first time. The start of a tradition of many years' standing, Marc Sleen processed those safaris not only in his comic strips but also in captivating nature documentaries with which he travelled around Flanders and which were broadcast on national television for many years.
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
- Exhibition Marc Sleen and his comic animals
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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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