The Gala Dinner will be held on Thursday, July 3 at the Belgian Comic Strip Center, from 08:00 pm to 00:00 am.
The Comic Art Museum is located in the centre of Brussels, near the Grand-Place, the Galeries Saint-Hubert or the Cathedral of Saints-Michael-and-Gudula and near many stops for public transport:
Comic Art Museum – Brussels
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
A free tour of the museum will be offered.
Then, the meal will take the form of a walking dinner with caterer Les Frères Debekker, who have over 40 years of culinary experience and tradition.
The Comic Art Museum, a true temple dedicated to comic strip art, is also an undisputed masterpiece of the Art Nouveau.
Located in the heart of Brussels, in a majestic Art Nouveau building, created by Victor Horta in 1906, the Comic Art Museum opened its doors to the public on October 6th 1989. In no time this impressive museum became one of the main attractions of Brussels. Every year more than 200.000 visitors come here to explore 4.200 m² of permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Mission statement
The non-profit organization “Belgian Comic Strip Center” was created in 1984. It is a private initiative, composed of French-speaking and Dutch-speaking members. Half of the members originate from the comic strips world or from professional associations of comic strip artists. The Belgian Comic Strip Center’s presidents have been, in chronological order, Bob De Moor (1984-1992), Jean Van Hamme (1992-2000), Guy Dessicy (2000-2012), and then Ferry Van Vosselen. Jean-Pierre Vanden Branden is its vice-president. The Belgian Comic Strip Center’s aims are twofold: to promote the comic strip as a valuable cultural medium and to maintain the architectural masterpiece which it is housed in.
The kingdom of comics
With more than 700 comic strip authors, Belgium has more comic strip artists per square kilometre than any other country in the world! It is here that the comic strip has grown from a popular medium into an art in its own right. Nowhere else comics are so strongly rooted in reality and in people’s imagination.
If you come to visit the Comic Art Museum, you will witness the unusual marriage of the Ninth Art and Art Nouveau, two artistic forms of expression which have always been particularly cherished in Brussels.