Le Lombard

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Le Lombard
Comic albums and magazines
Official websitewww.lelombard.com

Le Lombard (French pronunciation: [lə lɔ̃baʁ]), known as Les Éditions du Lombard (pronounced [lez‿edisjɔ̃ dy lɔ̃baʁ]) until 1989, is a Belgian comic book publisher established in 1946 when Tintin magazine was launched. Le Lombard is now part of Média-Participations, alongside publishers Dargaud and Dupuis, with each entity maintaining its editorial independence.[1]

History

Les Éditions du Lombard was established by

Edgar Pierre Jacobs, Hergé agreed. The first issue of Tintin magazine was published on 26 September 1946.[3] Simultaneously, a Dutch version was also published, entitled Kuifje (Kuifje being the name of Tintin in Dutch). 40,000 copies were printed in French, and 20,000 in Dutch.[2]

In 1986, Le Lombard was acquired by Média-Participations, and today publishes around one hundred titles annually. More recently, in 2015, Le Lombard joined with twelve other European comics publishing actors to create Europe Comics, a digital initiative co-funded by the European Commission's Creative Europe program.[4]

Notable titles

Comics series

This is a selected list of comics series, ordered by year of first publication by Le Lombard, with main authors given. A few series were also continued or temporarily taken over by other artists and writers.[5]

Books

References

  1. ^ "LE ROMBARD". stripinfo.be (in Dutch). 12 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b Horsten, Toon (December 2006). "De 9 levens van Raymond Leblanc". Stripgids (in Dutch). 2 (2): 10–19.
  3. ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Tintin comic magazine".
  4. ^ "Creative Europe Project Results: Europe Comics". Creative Europe. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Le Lombard, een familiezaak". visit.brussels (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 October 2023.

External links

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