Talk:Lambiek

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Lambiek is also a (unique) type of (Belgian) beer. ("Lambiek" is the correct way to spell what many people write down as "lambik" or "lambic") 07:23, 26 January 2007 81.241.248.110 (Talk)

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The Lambiek website is one of the longest-running resources about comics and cartoonists on the Internet. The website features a web shop for comic books, eComics, and original art, as well as a news page with articles of interest to comics fans and online art exhibitions. The flagship of the site is the Comiclopedia, an illustrated compendium of over 14,000 international comic artists and various articles of the comics history of certain nations, magazines and genres.

"Lambiek" is in fact the correct Dutch spelling of the Lambic beer that the character's name is based on.

The store has held art exhibitions and book signings by comic creators, including Gilbert Shelton, Will Eisner, Tanino Liberatore, Joost Swarte, Peter Pontiac, Don Lawrence, André Franquin, Robert Crumb, Lorenzo Mattotti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Jim Woodring, Chris Ware, Judith Vanistendael, Marc Bell, Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, David Collier, Glen Baxter, Jaromír Švejdík, Scott McCloud, Dave Cooper, Turtel Onli, and Derf Backderf. The shop and the informational website both have a strong focus on underground comics, graphic novels and autobiographical comics. The exhibitions can be profit or non-profit, depending on the subject of the exposition.

History
Kees Kousemaker (1942–2010) was a Dutch comics expert, born in Steenbergen, Netherlands. He first arose to prominence when he opened Lambiek in November 1968, the first specialized comic book store in Europe and the second oldest worldwide after Gary Arlington's San Francisco Comic Book Company which was established earlier that year in April, according to the Lambiek website.

...has therefore made Lambiek the oldest known comic book store still in existence as of 2020.

As a result of his exhibitions and attention to the early work of young cartoonists such as Peter Pontiac and Joost Swarte, he established collaborations and friendships with many Dutch and international artists, such as Will Eisner. In 1986 Lambiek established its famous gallery, where many comics artists could come and have heavily mediatized exhibitions of their work. The first expo revolved around the magazine RAW and was co-organized by Joost Swarte. Kousemaker also published books about Dutch comic culture, such as Strip voor Strip (1970) and Stripleksikon der Lage Landen (1979). He was also responsible for a special Yiddish edition of Will Eisner's A Contract with God (1984), which was presented to the press in the presence of Eisner himself.

Kees Kousemaker was also the instigator behind the Stripheldenbuurt in Almere, a district where all the street names were named after famous cartoonists and comics characters. On 11 May 2006 he was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Since 2007 Kousemaker's son, Boris Kousemaker, is the current store owner, after a brief interlude between 2005-2006 when Bas van der Zee was in charge.

Kousemaker died April 27, 2010. Another well known face in the store was Klaas Knol, who worked as an employee behind the counter from the mid 1980s until 2017. He died on 12 July 2019.

History
Although lambiek.net is the store's main domain name, Lambiek started a website www.lambiek.com in 1994 when Kees started to store historical comic book info online. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s the site kept its original blue design, until Kousemaker's death in 2010. From August 2012 on, Kees Kousemaker's son Boris ordered a complete remake of the site, converting all existing information into databases.

Comiclopedia
The Comiclopedia is an online encyclopedia which features biographical information and illustrations, comic strip images, album covers, frame grabs, and memorabilia about every individual comics artist whose name can be identified by signature. All artists are alphabetized and can both be looked up by name or by their nationality. The emphasis is mostly on comics artists, though cartoonists, caricaturists, animators, illustrators and/or celebrities who once drew comics themselves are also listed. Visitors can mail suggestions for new names, additions or corrections. As of 2020 more than 14.000 names have a page. In 1999-2005 Kousemaker, Margreet de Heer and Bas Schuddeboom did all the research and wrote the articles on the Comiclopedia. In 2005 De Heer left, making Kousemaker and Schuddeboom the main researchers and writers until Kousemaker's death in 2010. Schuddeboom continued on his own for five years, until Kjell Knudde became his co-researcher and writer from 2015 on.

History of comics sections
The history section also includes an in-depth examination of Bulgarian comics, researched and written by Vladimir Nedialkov, with additions by Stiliana Thepileva. The site also features a historical overview of the comics magazines Spirou, Tintin, Pif gadget, Pilote, Raw and Wimmen's Comix.

Lambiek also features separate articles about the Comics Code, Frederic Wertham, Disney comics artists around the world, erotic comics and underground comics.

Awards

 * Kousemaker and his store won the 1979 Zilveren Dolfijn.
 * The International Webmasters Association awarded Lambiek the Golden Web Award twice, in 2002-2002 and 2002-2003.
 * Longtime employee Klaas Knol won the 2010 Hal Foster Award for his service in the store.
 * On 8 February 2020 Bas Schuddeboom and Kjell Knudde, editors of the comics encyclopedia website Comiclopedia, connected to Lambiek, won the annual P. Hans Frankfurther Prize.