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Number 8, March 2005

* Galerie Lambiek re-opened
* Photo gallery
* Lambiek's Favorites
* Lambiek's business card on Ebay

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Galerie Lambiek re-opened
with a smashing party

Comic shop Lambiek finally has a new art gallery! The grand opening on 28 January 2005 was attended by scores of comic fans and friends of Lambiek and was regarded as a great success. The first exhibition in 18 months is a selection of previous shows we had in the last 20 years. It was good to see all the original art and silkscreen posters again, since they were stashed away in our storage for such a long time. The walls are filled now with original art by Ceesepe, Pascal Doury and Chris Ware, as well as with silkscreen posters by Franquin, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Jim Woodring and many others. A new expo is planned sometime in April, on which you will be informed in our next newsletter. Stay tuned!

Photo Gallery

Opening party
Everybody was there...
Opening party
Men...
(Floris Oudshoorn, Eddie de Jong and Paul Bodoni)
Opening party
Women...
(Maaike Hartjes and Gerrie Hondius)
Opening party
Small and tall...
(Flo and Tommy A.)
Opening party
ComComic artists...
(Guido van Driel taking the opportunity to sign his new book)
Opening party
and crew...
Opening party
...everybody!
Opening party
Opening party
No Lambiek opening is complete without a speech
from that riveting orator: Kees Kousemaker

Opening party
The captivated audience.
Guestbook
From the guestbook
Guestbook

Lambiek's Favorites & Recommendations

If you ain't got it yet, than get it fast! The Comics Journal # 266 presents '2004: Year in review'. It takes a closer look at the best books, comics, anthologies and comic-strip collections of the past year. Among them are: The Complete Bone, McSweeney #13, The Complete Peanuts, Buddha, Eightball and many others. TCJ
By the way, most of the books mentioned in this issue are in stock and available in our shop at the Kerkstraat 132, Amsterdam. If you are not able to visit our shop, we can always send it to you. Just email your wish-list to Lambiek.
Comic Art #266 Another great magazine about comics is without doubt Comic Art. Issue # 7 proves itself again with a 20 pages article on the legendary Dutch underground comic Tante Leny Presenteert, written by Patrick Rosenkranz, author of the criticly acclaimed 'Rebel Visions, the underground comix revolution 1963-1975'.
The richly illustrated article (Swarte, Pontiac, Smeets, Geradts, a.m.o.) includes interviews with Joost Swarte, Evert Geradts, Peter Pontiac and Lambiek founder Kees Kousemaker.
Comic Art article
If your curiosity is triggered, we have lots of issues of Tante Leny Presenteert in stock...
For prices and availability, please send an
email to Lambiek.

Lambiek's businesscard spotted on Ebay

lambiek's card
Rumor has it that the Lambiek business card - a mini-comic by Chris Ware - is sold on Ebay for US $ 40,--!
lambiek's card So if you wanna make an easy buck, place an order on our online store and an improved edition of this booklet comes with your order for free.
That's all for this time, folks! Next issue, we will anounce our first exhibition in the new place. Keep posted!

Klaas Knol - The Reporter


The Reporter is made by:
Klaas Knol, Margreet de Heer, Kees Kousemaker

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