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Distinct subgroup in the comics history

For Franco-Belgian comics, see Bande dessinée.

Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics,^[1] alongside France with whom they share a long common history.

While the comics in the two major language groups and regions of Belgium (Flanders with the Dutch language and Wallonia with French) each have clearly distinct characteristics, they are constantly influencing one another, and meeting each other in Brussels and in the bilingual publication tradition of the major editors.^[2] As one of the few arts where Belgium has had an international and enduring impact in the 20th century, comics are known to be "an integral part of Belgian culture".^[3]

History

Before 1940

The first large-scale production of comics in Belgium started in the second half of the 1920s.

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