Publications
It is the mission of the Marc Sleen Foundation to preserve and promote the works of this exceptional author. This includes new translations and new editions of less known works of Marc Sleen.
In consultation with the Marc Sleen Foundation a re-edition of the album Het spook uit de Zandstraat (1996) (literally: “The ghost of Rue de Sables”) has been prepared. The story has the building of the Marc Sleen Museum-to-be for a setting for an important part of the story. Moreover it was in Rue des Sables where Sleen’s most famous spiritual child Nibbs first saw the light in 1947, while Marc Sleen was working there as a political cartoonist and illustrator.
For this special edition of the Sleen Foundation Dirk Stallaert has created a new cover with the Sleen Museum for a background.
This album is available in English (November 2010), Dutch and French.
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).
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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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