{"id":2263,"date":"2011-12-19T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombedell.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2012-03-12T20:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:06:32","slug":"tap-beer-of-the-week-nero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/lifestyle\/2263\/tap-beer-of-the-week-nero","title":{"rendered":"TAP Beer of the Week: Nero"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 1947 Belgian cartoonist Marc Sleen introduced a comic strip character, Nero, who would be around for a long time–as would much more comic art from Sleen\u2019s pen. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records<\/em> as single-handedly producing more issues of a comic book series than any other artist. In all he produced 125,592 drawings, 20 comic strip series, with 378 album covers and on-the-spot drawings of the Tour de France for variety.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no great surprise that a compact Marc Sleen Museum stands alone in Brussels across the street from the more expansive museum holdings of the Belgian Comic Strip Center, one of the major tourist stops in the city.<\/p>\n

Belgians love their comics, and their Art Nouveau, which makes the Center a perfect fit, housed in a 1906 Art Nouveau masterpiece designed by Victor Horta.<\/p>\n

The animating spirit of Belgian comic art, Tintin, is now animated (well, in 3-D motion-capture animation at any rate) in the Peter Jackson-produced and Steven Spielberg-directed \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.\u201d Spielberg was on hand for the premiere in Brussels on October 22, preceding the widespread U.S. debut now on hand:<\/p>\n