European Comics on the Web

This is an overview of pointers to information on European comics (in French: bandes dessinées) that has been made available on the web. This site contains several sections:

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1001 BD

Renard Rouge's site with verious information about European comics (in French).

AB Collections

Michel Dufaure's comics page where he offers old comics for sale (in French).

Anonima Fumetti

An Italian comics organization (in Italian).

The Art of Sverre H. Kristensen

Jan Bruun's memorial website for the Danish comic artist Sverre H. Kristensen.

BD

A Portuguese site with news, reviews and other information about comics (in Portuguese).

BD oubliées

A site that provides information about forgotten comics (in French).

Le Bd Surfeur

A site with online information about different European comics (in French).

B. Dejas

Cartoons and other work of the French artist B. Dejas (in French).

Beeldstorm

A group of comic artists located in Gent, Belgium which publish comics and a magazine, and organize exhibitions (in Dutch).

Het besloten land

A Belgian site with different information about comics, among others information about recent issues (in Dutch).

Blue

A French site which offers original comics for sale (in French).

CAB Arts Home

A site which contains information about the German comic artist Cedric Bucerius.

Calendrier du centenaire

A chronological overview of 100 years of comics (in French).

El Can

Spanish website providing caricatures and some comics info (in Spanish).

Caricature Zone

A Belgian site that offers caricatures of famous people. Created by Marie and Patrick Sterno-Meunier.

Cartoon Rating

Online rating of cartoons from Russia and other countries (in Russian).

Cartoonguru

A site which offers pointers to the work of many cartoonists.

Cartoons by Gaspirtz by Oliver Gaspirtz

Site covering the work of the German comic artist Oliver Gaspirtz.

Cartoons Online

Kay Siegert's game site with some cartoon characters.

Cartoon World

Bill Asprey's British portal site for comic makers and comic fans.

Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinee

A Belgian organization for the promotion of comics.

Centre Religieux d'Information et d'Analyse de la Bande Dessinie

A website about Christian comics in 39 languages (in French).

Christian Comics International

An organisation supporting Christian comics among which European Christian comics.

Cizgi Roman

A Turkish comics site which among others offers information about European comics (in Turkish). Maintained by Altin Madalyon.

Comic Art Gallery

Raimundo's collecion of images made by European comic artists (in Spanish).

Comic House

An overview of work by contemporary Dutch and Belgian comic artists.

Comic in Poland

Igor Soszynski's web page dedicated to Polish comics and Polish comic magazines.

La Comicativa

A general comics overview page (in Spanish).

Comics 2000

Juan Benita's selection of best comics published in Spain in 1997 (in Spanish).

Comics Dunyasi Cizgi Roman Kulturu Sitesi

A Turkish site with information about comics (in Turkish).

Comics from Russia

An overview site which presents original Russian comics.

Comics Images

Contains links to about 20 covers of different European comics.

Comics-Jet

An online collection of original russian comics (sci-fi, tales, adventures, humor). By Andrey Ayoshin.

Comics Reviews

Comics Reviews by Jean Rogers

The Comics World

Miscelleanous information about comics (in French).

Comic-Utecht

A German comic site with many funny images (in German).

Concombre Masqué

Mandryka's comic web site about a masked cucumber and a kohlrabi.

Damsels in Distress

An unusal site covering damsels in distress in comics.

Dany's Stripkalender

Dany Heyndels's calendar of comics-related activities in Europe (in Dutch).

Dedicated to ...

Some people collect autographs of comic authors with small pictures and put their collection of these on the web. Here are some collections: Florent Balard (in French), Maxime Veron (in French). and Patrice Cappelle (in French). Latest addition: Charles Hubentz (in French).

Dik Winter's Comics Site

At this comics site you will find indexes for some Dutch comics magazines (Pep, Eppo Wordt Vervolgd and SjoSji), Tintin scans and information about comics quizzes.

Disabled Comic Collector's Club

An international club for disabled people that collect comics. Founded by Ken Johnston.

Efpé BD

Frederic Pierard's page with pictures of all sorts of European comic gadgets like cups, glasses, figures, key rings, cards, stamps and pegs (in French).

Embryo

Andreas Johansson's site for presenting beginning comics artists.

Emmers stripsite

A collection of information about comics: news, events and reviews (in Dutch). Supplied by Maarten Reijnders

Eric Lamiroy's comics page

A comics page with among others images of dedications of comic artists (in French).

Vanmol.net

Home page of the Belgian cartoonist Erwin Vanmol (in Dutch).

Espace BD

A Belgian organisation that organises expositions about European comics (in French). Located in Brussels.

EuroBD

A web ring with pointers to sites about European comics (in French).

European Comic Reviews of the Cuckoo

A collection of comic reviews which discusses among others work by Franquin, Maaike Hartjes, Kriek, Matena, Ptiluc, Barbara Stok and Tardi.

Fano Funny

An Italian comics group that organizes comics festivals.

Felyn's Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Adventure Comics

Information about French comics in the fantasy, science fiction and adventure genre.

Festival de Bande Dessinée de Bruxelles

A comics festival which will be held in Brussels at May 4 and 5, 1996 (in French but they are working on an English page)

The Finnish Comics Society

A collection of on-line comics created by different Finnish artists. Also known as NetComics Weekly. More links to on-line comics can be found in Sami Köykkä's Comics in WWW.

fr.rec.arts.bd

fr.rec.arts.bd is a French Usenet newsgroup. Now there is an archive with articles available (in French).

Fumetto Comics Festival

A Swiss comics festival (in German).

Fumettogo

An Italian site which invites comic artists to submit their work to them.

GBDAO: Gestion de Bandes Dessinées Assistée par Ordinateur

An organization which offers software for managing comic book collections (in French).

Gert Meesters's comics interviews

A list of comics interviews by Gert Meesters (in Dutch).

Goguetoons

An overview of the work of the (Galician?) cartoonist Gogue. There is a related site by The Bush Blade.

La Grande Ourse

A French comic site dedicated to comic lovers (in French).

Héroïnes BD

This comic site by Olivier Grassini, Laurent Joudon and Christophe Dufflot presents information about the female hero's in European comics (in French).

HispaComic

A Spanish comic portal wth among others news, discussion forums and mailing lists (in Spanish).

Honk Studios

Johann Kiefersauer's German comic studio which is reponsible for the comics Dr. Bubi Livingston and Käp`ten Blaubär (in German).

Hugues Fasbender's Comics Contest

A comics site which aims at finding the ten best and the ten worst comics (in French).

I.Mag

A French organization which distributes information about comics. Their site supplies among other information about comic festivals, and pictures by well-known comic artists (in French).

Ismail KARcomic

Home page of the Turkish comic artist Ismail Kar.

Jaime Martin

Information about the Spanish comic artist Jaime Martin and his work (in Spanish). He writes for Ediciones La Cúpula and El Víb.

Jean-Marc Reiser

Information about the French comic artist Jean-Marc Reiser is supplied by David Nortershauser (in French), Moon JongBae (in Korean), Kormoran (in Bosnian?) and Lambiek.

Jeroen Janssen Comics

Information about the Belgian comic artist Jeroen Janssen and his work.

Jerry Magni

The home page of the Italian comic artist Jerry Magni.

J.M. Gruet

Information abou the French comic artist Jean-Michel Gruet, among others author of En Cyclopedie.

Jörg Bechmann

Information abou the work of the German comic artist Jörg Bechmann.

Ka-BOOM!

A dictionary of special comic words like OOOUUUCHHH and BAOOOM. Maintained by Kevin J. Taylor.

Katz & Goldt

Illustrated homepage of Katz & Goldt, as they put it themselves: two lovely guys from Berlin (in German).

Koen Mortelmans's Strips

An selection by Koen Mortelmans of information about Flemish comics (in Dutch).

De Linkadoor

Jeroen François's general comics site with news, reviews and links (in Dutch).

Loopy Enterprises Artists' Association

An organization that attempts to give artists more exposure on the net.

Mailing lists

There are several comics related mailing lists: a general Dutch mailing list, a general Spanish mailing list, and there are also specialized lists dedicated to Asterix (English) and Tintin (French).

Marco Corona's Comics Page

The comics page of an Italian comics artist.

Marky Mark's Stripalbums

The comics collection of Mark van der Sluis.

Mars Gremmen

There are two sites about the Dutch comic artists Marc Gremmen: one maintained by @ggie (in Dutch) and one maintained by the artist himself: Mars Gremmen (in Dutch).

Maurice Fontaine's Comics Page

An overview page containing links to French comics such as Pin-up, Dayak and Les 7 Vies de l'Epervier (in French)

Metaphorg

Metaphrog is a duo of two comic creators that work in Scotland.

Michèle Laframboise's Comics Page

The comics page of the artist Michèle Laframboise with information about her comics Pianissimo!, Technologie Salvatrice and Les aventures écologiques du CREM.

Michele Medda

The home page of Italian comic artist Michele Medda who among others works on Nathan Never and Dylan Dog (in Ital;ian).

Opale BD

A French organization which offers comics artists the possibility of exposing their work on the web (in French).

ORF on Comics

The comics site of the Austrian national broadcasting organization (in German).

Pagus

A German overview site with comic reviews and links (in German).

Pen, Ink and Beyond

Information about a comic drawing course created by the Italian Disney artists.

Phil Elliott's Comics

The comics page of British artist Phil Elliott with information and online preview pages of his work.

Pressibus

Pressibus is a comics site created by Alain Beyrand and dedicated to comics which appear in French newspapers Also contains information about other "bandes dessinées". (in French).

rec.arts.comics.european

A newsgroup about European comics.

Reclamestripclub

A group of people which collect advertisement comics, that is comics which are used as advertisements (in Dutch).

Schüttfort's Cartoons & Comics

Comics by the German comic artist Ulrich Schüttfort (in German). With among others the adventures of Der Kröte.

Screensavers

Screensavers for European comics are offered by Mark Thissen.

SerieAgenturen

A Swedish comics artists agency (in Swedish). You can contact them if you need comic artists, either for illustrations or stories.

Serier - information och länkar

Johan Blixt's information site about Swedish comics (in Swedish).

Series SF

Patrice Vernet's overview of European science fiction comics (in French). Covers among others Druuna, Le cycle de Cyann, Les naufragis du temps, Luc Orient, La caste des Mita-Barons and La guerre iternelle.

Serieskolan

Announcement of Esbjörn Jorsäter's school where you can learn drawing comics (in Swedish) or create storyboards. Both offer distance courses. In February 2000 they have started an ezine (in Swedish). They organize a comic contest for Nordic authors (in Swedish).

Shockdom

This Italian? site claims to offer shockwave comics (cannot verify this).

SILF

The Sindacato Italiano Lavoratori del Fumetto is an Italian union for comic artists (in Italian).

Skydog Comics

A German comic studio.

Sound Comics

A description of a multi-lingual CD based on a comic (in French).

Spoutnik

A site with comments on different comics (in French).

Stephane Lemaire's Bandes-Dessinées page

A site with information about different European comic authors (in French).

Stephane Riviere's Bandes-Dessinées page

Stephane Riviere supplies an comics overview page in French.

Steven Heyse website

Home page of the Belgian artist Steven Heyse (in Dutch).

Stripbib

Pieter Maerien's site with various information about European comics (in Dutch).

Stripgalerie

A site which is planning to offer space for buying and selling original comic drawings (in Dutch). By R. Crawfurd.

Stripschap

Stripschap is a Dutch comics fan organization (in Dutch).

Stripster

This site promotes Dutch and Flemish small-press comics authors by presenting information about them and their work (in Dutch).

Studio Babbelstan

Dutch studio which creates comics and related artwork.

El Tebeo

A general comics page in Spanish presented by Alberto Sintes Villar

Los Tebeos de Siempre

José Luis Bernier Villamor's site dedicated to Spanish comics (in Spanish).

Telemark Tegneserieverksted

I believe that this a an art studio which among other things produces comics. It is run by Tor Arne Hegna and others You may want to check it out for yourself.

Teemu Mäkinen's Cartoon books page

Teemu Mäkinen maintains an overview page of European cartoons.

TMF Software Multimedia

A Spanish software company that offers a computer-aided course for learning how to draw comics (in Spanish).

l'Univers BD

A big comics site with interviews, games and information about comics.

Unofficial Bonelli Comics E-Magazine

The Unofficial Bonelli Collector's Home Page (uBC) is a site for the collectors of comics published by the Italian publisher Sergio Bonelli like Dylan Dog, Martin Mystére, Mister No, Nathan Never, Tex and Zagor.

Vlad Kolarov Comics

The comic work of the Bulgarian artist Vlad Kolarov is displayed on at least two sites: CardsUp.com and e!Toon.

Volodja Sivcevic

Home page of the Yugoslavian multimedia artist Volodja Sivcevic which includes some of his comics work.

Weborgers

An overview of major Belgian comics supplied by Etienne Borgers. Borgers is among others responsible for scripts of Natascha by François Walthery.

Westren Comics Page

Gert Beumer's Westren Comics Page contains links to Western Comics information about Blueberry, Buddy Longway, Comanche and Durango.

The World's Edge Diner

The home page of the French comic artist Christophe Marchetti, also known as Ze Lunatic Corsican (in French).

Yuri Comicspace

On-line comics made by the Dutch artist Yuri Landman

Yves Parrat's Comic Site

A site which pays attention comic characters and comic authors who are guest stars in some other comic (in French).

Zlatko Milenkovic

A Yugoslavian comics author from the city of Novi Sad.

Zucco's Home Page

A site displaying the work of the Belgian comic artists Arnaud Abel (alias Zucco).