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Not just another knight on the Kerkstraat...

In April 2006, Kees Kousemaker was knighted by the Queen's mayor for his many contributions to the Dutch comics world, hereby 'De Straatridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau'. Dankjewel!

Lambiek moved down the street in 2005

Lambiek proudly presents the history of Dutch comics, in English! Our rich cultural heritage of sequential art in The Netherlands dates back to the Middle Ages, and came to bloom in the past century. Enjoy many pictures from our colorful past in this unique overview of Dutch comics history.

In the last week of August 2000, there was a special event in the Dutch comic scene: the 2500th issue of the Dutch version of Donald Duck Weekly Magazine was printed! As a supplement, loyal readers received issue #1, from October 1952. Inside this festive edition, there was a story about Donald Duck, on the search for this very rare first print. Of course, he starts his enquiries at the most famous comics antiquarian store - in its owner, Cees Sokkenstopper, we immediately recognized our own Kees Kousemaker! To be featured in Donald Duck is to a comic-fanatic like being on the cover of Rolling Stone is to a musician!

Congratulations, Donald Duck, and thanks a lot!

Dutch comic artist Floris Oudshoorn made this special drawing of Lambiek below for the back cover of his new book, 'Ongezellige Verhalen'.

Over 7,000 Comiclopedia pages and artwork folders were moved to lettered subfolders ('lambiek.net/artists/a/' etc) in January 2006. Please update your website links, bookmarks and favorites, and if you find an old link to us somewhere, please ask them to update it to the new one. Thanks for your help!