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My Name is Willem DeGraeve,
and I’m one of the directors of the Belgian Comic Stip Center.
As a child I was really fascinated by comics.
Before I could read I was flipping through them.
People are proud of comics, it’s part of our patrimony, and just like Bruegel, Magritte and so on.
The exhibition that is now online on Google Open Gallery is telling the story of the building and the museum.
I just amuse myself by comparing an old picture with an actual picture,
and it’s fascinating to see the differences, and also to see what still remained the same.
In our museum, we have about 60,000 titles.
Google Open Gallery is a perfect tool to develop our virtual collection.
If this museum can give part to a new generation of comic artists,
I and my successors, we will be very very happy.