Event review: Comic Con Brussels
Comic Con Brussels What: pop-culture convention Where: Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium When: February 10 & 11 2018 I’m going to flat out say it without beating around the bush: Comic Con Brussels was one of the best conventions I have ever attended. Possibly the best. There’s quite a few reasons that contributed to this conclusion, so stick around to find out what made this event awesome. (more…)
Exhibitions at the Cinquantenaire Museum have a lot of live up to. Whilst it is one of the least known museums in Belgium, and often gives the impression of being grossly underfunded (most general admission halls don’t even have heating in winter, be warned), it generally puts up exhibitions that can easily rival with those in big museums of international reknown such as the British Museum. This…
Review: Lady Mechanika, volume 4
You might find it strange that I am talking about the most recent Lady Mechanika volume 2nd, but that’s because this one actually chronologically probably comes best first or maybe second (but I actually bought it last, so yeah). Which is probably why it’s not specifically numbered like the others. In any case, it doesn’t particularly matter at which point in the Lady Mechanika timeline you read…
Review: Lady Mechanika, volume 1
I am aware that we are extremely late to the party on starting to review these, but it is an ongoing series, with volume 4 released not long ago, so better late than never right. Surely there are some people out there that aren’t aware of Lady Mechanika yet. Check it out if you are one of them, because this is one of the best comics around. And it has been translated into a myriad of languages, I…
Exhibit review: Once Upon A Time
Once Upon a Time Where: Cinquantenaire Museum, Etterbeek (Brussels), Belgium When: May 17 – September 17. Once Upon A Time at the Cinquantenaire Museum was probably THE clockpunk exhibit extraordinaire. For those not familiar with the term, it coins all manners steampunk style before the start of the late Regency, which is the starting era for steampunk (dieselpunk starts with the Roaring 20s and…
There are these rare, very rare, moments where you find yourself sitting at a local festival, that couldn’t be further away from anything steampunk or dieselpunk if it actually tried, and you realise that the band that just started to perform on stage is in fact… a steampunk band. That was exactly what happened when I attended the annual Heist-op-den-Berg sheep shearing festival in Belgium on May…
Pretty much everyone that loves steampunk has heard of the near legendary Les Machines de l’île, an area on the Island of Nantes (yes, that area of Nantes is really called l’île à the Island) where company La Machine builds their amazing wood and metal creations, such as the fantastical fire breathing dragon horse or Princesse and Kumo, the enormous spiders that have climbed buildings and walked…
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