Exploring the "Van Gogh Road" Netherlands belgium in-depth tour (50) - "Comic Road"
What impressed me most about the trip to Brussels was not the or the HEADQUARTERS of the European Union, but the more than 40 interesting cartoon walls that I had found all morning in the ups and downs, wide and narrow streets and alleys.
In the previous few articles we have said, Brussels is the hometown of Tintin, the Smurfs, but also known as the "capital of comics", you can see comic elements all over the street, but in fact, many cities in Europe and the United States also have comics or graffiti walls, so Brussels can be known as "the pilgrimage site of comic fans" Naturally has its own unique features.
Beginning in 1991, Brussels has planned a 6-kilometer "Comic Strip Road", on which more than 40 cartoonists have carefully drawn comic walls, which are not simply scribbles, but must be classic comic book characters and scenes written by Local Belgian cartoonists, and must be cleverly integrated with the surrounding environment.
These comic walls not only make the old city come alive, but also make the characters in the comic "live" in the real city. Every year, the number of comic walls is also growing, which makes the city of Brussels like a "comic strip" maze, people who like comics can explore their familiar scenes in the streets and alleys, even if they are not comic book fans like us, it is like a treasure hunt full of surprises, full of childlike fun and innocence.
If you want to exhaust these comic walls, you can ask for a map of the "Comic Road" at the Comic Book Museum or some comic shop, or enter "murs bd" in google maps like we do, which is the abbreviation of the French La Bande Dessinée (comic), and mur is the wall, so as long as you have a mobile phone with internet access, you can start the comic journey.
Tintin, which is closest to the Grand Plaza, is undoubtedly the first stop of the Comic Road, even if you do not deliberately explore the comic wall, as long as you are on the way from the Big Square to, you will definitely see it. Hergé created the brave, kind, righteous Tintin to win the hearts of men, women and children all over the world, and former French President Charles de Gaulle once said: "The ups and downs of life can be compared with me, and there is only one person in the world, that is, Tintin." ”
The comic wall depicts a street chase in The Adventures of Tintin: The Carculus Case: Tintin and Snow follow Captain Hardek as they escape the police and run down the fire-guarded staircase outside the building. The clever combination of picture and realistic architecture, perfect trompe l'oeil.
Diagonally opposite Tintin is the wall painting of Pi Boy, which is not part of the "Comic Road", this building is the Pis Museum, which we have talked about in our previous article, although Pi Boy is not a comic book character, but can be regarded as a spokesperson for Brussels.
About ten meters west of the Pisp Museum is the second painting of the "Comic Road" - Dany's "Olivier Lamo", the male protagonist Olivier occasionally enters the "Rose Garden World", the female protagonist appears, fireworks are full of fireworks, and the romance is extreme.
Tintin and Olivier were both seen on our first day in Brussels, followed by our last day in the morning. Originally, our last day trip was to the EU headquarters, but suddenly we wanted to find the comic wall, so we embarked on a wonderful journey of exploration.
Brussels at nine o'clock in the morning seems to be still asleep, and the silence and the noise of the night seem to be two worlds. At the beginning of the early morning search for the comic wall we also found an interesting sculpture, looking closely at the lower left corner of the picture above, is a puppy that pees.
In Brussels, there are pis boys, pis girls, and there is even a pis puppy. Looking more closely at the wall, there is a very small black and white wall painting, a man on one knee proposing to another man in a suit, it seems that we are going to enter the "rainbow zone".
The wall diagonally opposite the puppy is full of portraits and graffiti, but these are not part of the "comic road", more like graffiti for the freedom of expression on the streets of Europe and the United States.
Sure enough, it didn't go far to be a large wall painting with many elements reflecting the gay area.
Not only this one, but there are many more in this alley.
The boy who was escaping seemed to have really just escaped from the window above.
These gay-related wall paintings are not personal graffiti, but also planned by the government, Belgium is the second country after the Netherlands to recognize homosexuality legality, these wall paintings were painted by local artists in collaboration with Greek artist Fotini Tikkou and German artist Ralf König.
A series of portraits and inner discourses of the characters express the voices of homosexuals, as well as the misunderstandings and prejudices that people often misunderstand and prejudice against them.
Diagonally opposite the police station is le passage by the famous Belgian cartoonist François Schitton, who is also a famous landscape architect who is said to have designed the interior of one of the stations of the Paris Metro.
The beautiful comic wall with the ancient European-style building of the minaret is eye-catching and not obtrusive, making people feel as if they have traveled to the Middle Ages for a while, and then they have crossed into the second dimension.
Rainbow sidewalk, it seems that this is also a gay area.
This painting is Francis Carin's Victor Sackeville, and the tones are almost integrated with the surrounding colors, and the houses look very similar, especially with a clock tower-like building. It turns out that the picture is a scene from "The Death of the Opera House": Victor, a private detective, comes to Brussels on a secret mission during World War I, surrounded by his female companion, and the street scene in the comic is the real appearance of the street during World War I.
Not far behind is Frank Pé's Ragebol, who is walking across the road with his barely genderable "girlfriend." They also have rainbow flags on the shops opposite them.
Let my yo-yo also appear on the "manga road". The painting "Rick Osher" is particularly cleverly painted, the scene in the painting is completely integrated with the real building, the yellow-haired male protagonist Rick Osher holds the pipe of the roof of the house with one hand, struggling to save the girl whose life is in danger in the house, and the uncle who walks the dog on the first floor and his dog are shocked by the scene above.
In the following picture of the bar in front of the bar at night, Mr Jean is carrying a suitcase, and the various characters in the bar and the homecomings on the tram are all scenes that every off-duty person can see.
There are also some graffiti on the "Comic Road" that has no theme.
Official reports say belgium now has 700 professional comic book authors, which may not sound like a lot, but if measured per unit area, the density is definitely the highest in the world. It's also an exaggeration to say that there is one Belgian in every three cartoonists in the world.
There are also some comic walls that are not traditional, and the comics embedded in the walls are also very interesting.
The scene in The Adventures of Tintin occupies the side walls of the entire house and blends well with the surrounding buildings, showing a station, and the roadside of this building is a station.
The painting seems to be unfinished, but it has been painted with graffiti again, and I don't know how it is going.
This is a scene from Roger Leloup's comic strip Yoko Tsuno, about the adventures of a Japanese teenage electrical technician and partner Myna, who travels throughout Eurasia and even into outer space. Roger Leloup was an important member of Tintin's father, Hergé, when he founded her atelier Hergé, and he painted the vehicles for the Kalculus Incident and Flight 714 in Tintin's Adventures.
This painting is also not in the "Road of Manga", and it is not known which ethnic costume it is painted.
The buildings are more modern, and the buildings are more modern, and the interesting thing is that the buildings and vehicles in the wall paintings have also been modernized.
The style of this painting is very different, realistic landscapes, religious color-like clothing, not like a cartoonist's painting, but like a painter painted.
This is Andre flangam's long-tailed leopard Masubi rami, which is one of my favorites, although I am not familiar with this comic, but I naturally like leopards, so I also participated in the creation, haha~
This one is also what I like very much, the white-bearded painter is painting sketches, and the painting is actually the Palace of Justice in Brussels, which is too cleverly combined!
Unconsciously, I walked to the Palace of Justice, and the day before yesterday I also saw it in the Royal Square, which was built in 1866 by the order of the first King of Belgium, Leopold I, and built for 17 years, which looks like a cathedral from a distance.
There are still many comic walls on the map, but we can't find them anymore, and we have to go to the EU headquarters in a moment, and then look at the last one that is very joyful: "angels of all roads" enjoying the sun bathing in the sky, and an old angel is watering the flowers on the windowsill, and the water drips down into hell, just on the chicken leg that the devil is grilling. It's ingenious!
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