“United Comics of Belgium”, an exhibition for the CBBD in (…)

The Belgian Comic Strip Center, like many cultural places, has not been very lucky this year, as the pandemic has affected three of the main sources of income for the institution: entrance tickets, reduced to zero for many months, rental rooms for seminars and companies made impossible because of Covid and transformed into videoconferences, finally the brewery and the bookstore whose activity has been reduced to nothing.

However, this private institution lives above all on these revenues and receives very little state support, unlike the Cité de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image, for example.

This is why the showcase of comics in Belgium is launching, in partnership with the King Baudouin Foundation, a sponsorship campaign to finance its next major exhibition: United Comics of Belgium, scheduled for March 2021.

Annus Horribilis for the Belgian Comic Strip Center

Photo: D. Pasamonik (L’Agence BD)

This exhibition is intended to be ” a snapshot of creation, bubbling, diverse and multiple, contradictory, chaotic, innovative, promising, provocative, creative, artistic, rich, diverse and striking! » [Et un moyen de recoller avec les créateurs belges qui avaient exprimé leur colère de ne pas se sentir représentés à sa juste mesure par le CBBD ?- >https://www.actuabd.com/Petition-des-auteurs-et-des-editeurs-belges-contre-la-gouvernance-du-Centre]. Probably.

The objective is therefore to collect € 78,000 for the exhibition with, for each contributor domiciled in Belgium, the possibility until the end of 2020 of a much greater tax exemption than usual: 60% of deductibility from 40 € donation.

The Belgian Center has remained desperately empty in recent weeks.

Photo: D. Pasamonik (L’Agence BD)

Among the authors represented: Léonie Bischoff, Chariospirale, Johan de Moor, Max de Radiguès, Thijs Desmet, Kim Duchateau, Éphameron, Exaheva, Benoît Feroumont, Valentine Gallardo, Olivier Grenson, Marc Hardy, Hermann, Jean-Claire Lacroix, Marec, Noémie Marsily, Mobidic, José Parrondo, Ptiluc, Romain Renard, Séraphine, Élodie Shanta, Mathilde van Gheluwe, Judith Vanistendael, Jana Vasiljevic, Wide Vercnocke, Aurélie William Levaux. A vision of current Belgian creation and a smart way to raise funds to pass this difficult course without hindrance.

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