Dickie à Antibes" exhibition

This is only the second time since the museum opened its doors to cartoons in 1995 that it has welcomed comic strips.
After 2002, Dickie succeeded Asterix. A fine pedigree! Dickie is an odd fellow. He's a naive, well-meaning, clumsy little farmer who's involved in situations - misadventures, one might be tempted to say - that very often have an unhappy ending. Doesn't this remind you of a film character wearing a bowler hat and carrying a walking stick? Charlot?
Dickie's world is also well known to fans of Belgian comics, and he could be the not-so-distant cousin of Franquin's Gaston Lagaffe. "M'enfi n...".
Pieter De Poortere is a history buff. He goes through the great events of times gone by with his little farmer, and it's no coincidence that the artist grew up in the countryside.