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What’s in a name … and what isn’t? John Maynard Keynes
5 September 2011 – 18:20 | No Comment

David M. Brinley for The Washington Post
What does it mean to be Keynesian? It was the British economist John Maynard Keynes who declared that when, like today, economic growth grinds to a standstill and businesses …

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New gallery: Tintin Festival 2005
20 May 2009 – 11:52 | No Comment
New gallery: Tintin Festival 2005

New gallery added under Photography: Pictures from the first Tintin Festival in Bruxelles in 2005.
Use Cooliris (fka PicLens) to get a super viewing experience!

Meanwhile, in Brussels, our hero fights a comic-book crisis
12 May 2009 – 21:23 | No Comment
Meanwhile, in Brussels, our hero fights a comic-book crisis

Jean Van Hamme is a giant of Belgium’s comic-book world even though he can’t draw.
The 70-year-old former marketing executive writes the stories that fill the white bubbles of Belgium’s best-selling graphic-novel series. Hits ranging from …

Brussels Sprout – The Adventures of Tintin
12 May 2009 – 20:53 | No Comment

On January 10, 1929, Belgium’s Le Petit Vingtième, a weekly children’s newspaper supplement to Le Vingtième Siècle, introduced the world to a new cartoon hero, Tintin.
via Brussels Sprout.