For a month, numerous activities take place at various locations throughout the city during the Leiden Comic Festival. From an exhibition and drawing and cartoon workshops in the library, to a comic book pub quiz at Scheltema and from films...
Belgium has a first at the European Football Championship in Germany. Their away shirt is based on the clothing of their comic book hero, so off on an adventure with Tintin! Naturally, this Adidas shirt is for sale on the webshop. And do the colors match...
This coming weekend, on June 1 and 2, 2024, the 16th edition of Stripdagen Haarlem will be organized. This time not at the familiar location, the Philharmonie (now: Phil), but in the Koepel Haarlem (or better known as the old Koepel Prison along the...
After a successful run in Amsterdam at The Black Archives, the exhibition 'Facing Blackness | Facing Blackness' has found its way to The Hague, thanks to a special commission from the Municipality of The Hague. The exhibition, hosted at the...
In my coronavirus blog (17) I wrote extensively about the history of the vaccine. In this follow-up blog, the current status of the various vaccines. Before the end of 2020, major pharmaceutical companies want to deliver an effective vaccine. Almost all...
Who was the first on the moon and when? We all have July 20, 1969 in our heads, but someone had been to the moon before. Tintin and his friends visited the moon 16 years before Neil Armstrong....
Every year, all book lovers (and that includes not only those over 50) await the book market in the Hanseatic city of Deventer. On August 6th, the 29th edition will be held with a total of 878 stalls filled with thousands of books and over six kilometers of market...
On my tenth birthday, I received my first Tintin comic book. Before that, I had already received a few other Suske and Wiske comic books, but I found the comic book about 'the rocket to the moon' many times more exciting. This comic book...
Anyone who is a fan of Tintin and also an enthusiast of vintage trains should not miss the 'Tintin and the Trains' exhibition at the Belgian Railway Museum Trainworld in Schaerbeek. The exhibition is on view until April 16, 2017. Schaerbeek...
A new series of stamps from Monaco was recently released featuring a scene from the Tintin story 'The Treasure of Rackham the Red'. This stamp was issued in honor of the third Tintin album being published in the Monegasque language. In addition to...
On October 1, 1999, the Belgian Post began the introduction, or rather the acclimatization, to the euro, which was intended to serve as a replacement for the familiar Belgian franc on January 1, 2002. It was a postage stamp of 17 francs, not calculated in...
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