Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, alongside France with whom they share a long common history.
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10 Facts About Belgian comics
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The Belgian comics that were available came from France and were mostly available in parts of Belgium where the French language dominated .
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George Van Raemdonck, the first major Flemish Belgian comics artist, worked almost exclusively in the Netherlands until after World War II.
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Belgian comics worked there until his death in 1980, and was the driving force of the magazine during and directly after the war.
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Belgian comics was responsible for its expansion and success in the next decades, and was as the inspirator for the later generation of comics artists in the 1940s and 1950s which is known as the Marcinelle school.
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Spirou expanded from 12 pages of newspaper quality to 52 full colour pages, and the number of American Belgian comics, reintroduced after the end of the war, dwindled to near nil in 1950.
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In Flanders, a final experiment with a youth Belgian comics magazine was started in 1993 with Suske en Wiske Weekblad by Standaard Uitgeverij: with a mix of classic Belgian comics and new series and carried by the most popular Dutch language series and a sizable promotional campaign, it got a sizable audience at first, but slowly lost momentum and disappeared in 2003.
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Belgium has more than 700 professional Belgian comics creators, making it the country with the most Belgian comics artists per km².
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Different Belgian towns have mural paintings and statues of the major comics, and some of the most famous artists have been knighted.
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