Welcome to the world of comics !

It is interesting how many fans of comics there are on the world. People who have private collections of comics, children who buy comics or adults who someday in a rush of daily responsibilities find a box containing their childhood stuff and among old clothes, music tapes, family pictures and postcards from vacations there are their beloved comic book. 

Nowadays, we have various types of comics originated from different countries. 
  For instance, Japanese Manga, which differs significantly from any kinds of comics:

the picture was taken from: http://artinspired.pbworks.com/f/1235355636/manga%20in%20america.png

Writing at this point, it is impossible not to mention about Belgium, the homeland of comic art. 

During the trip to Brussels, with the Culture in Context group, we had a chance to visit

Belgian Comic Strip Center

here, are some pictures from the Museum:

On the first picture, the comics character of Tintin: 

 

the picture of Tintin was taken from: http://us.tintin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/characters-tintin-in-tibet-select5.jpg 
Some examples of comics -->

In Belgian Comic Strip Center:

Some more  art:

<-- In the Belgian Comic Strip Center there were very interesting texts and descriptions of exhibition concerning the comics, how they are make and what techniques are used.

 

the picture of Lucky Luke was taken from:http://www.weirdspace.dk/LuckyLuke/Graphics/LuckyLuke.jpg

The next Art Class Session, the main theme concerned COMICS. During the lesson we were familiarized with well-known Belgian comics:

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" A dog of Flanders" is a comic book, which is very famous not only in Belgium, but as well in ,for example, Japan. This comics, about  "a dog of Flanders" was published several times in many languages, not only in English, and has as well many movie adaptations (also Japanese).  The story is extremely famous especially in Japan. What is more, Japanese tourists who came to visit Belgium kept asking about the Dog of Flanders, and finally, a statue in memory of this famous tale was built in Antwerp.

source: http://cdn3.vtourist.com/4/1168597-A_monument_for_Nello_and_Patrasche_Antwerp.jpg

What is more...

During the lesson we had a special task: to draw a comics in groups! I enjoyed this activity because it was not boring. Each of the groups was given a big piece of paper and a one figure. Then, we followed the instructions of a teacher and various tasks and we switched with each group adding some new details to every comics.

 

At the end of this session our task was to draw our own comics on the basis of the story which was created during group work. Here is my comics about a very busy Snowman! 

From single illustrations, the story of a snowman was created !