His collection includes old international masters such as André Franquin (Spirou and Fantasio, Guust, Marsupilami), Albert Uderzo (Asterix, Tanguy and Laverdure), Morris (Lucky Luke)a and Hergé (Tintin). In his spare time, Arie has been collecting original covers, pages and illustrations from all the great cartoonists from home and abroad, for more than twenty years. The founder of the museum is Noordwijk architect Arie Korbee. The Museum of Comic Art is a new Dutch comics museum, in which the best original drawings by Dutch and international artists are shown to the public in several exhibitions per year. But from now on, everyone is welcome to enjoy the first Dutch museum entirely devoted to the ‘Ninth Art’. A number of well-known cartoonists such as Theo van den Boogaard, Eric Heuvel and comic book prize winner Gerben Valkema were allowed, under strict conditions, to take a look at the beautifully designed exhibition European Masters of Comic Art. The Dutch Lucky Luke performed the official opening act. ‘No talk, just pictures’: Saturday 19 June was the day! After a lockdown of almost six months, the brand-new Museum of Comic Art in Noordwijk aan Zee was finally allowed to open its doors to the public.
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