Since 1999, Lambiek presents the Comiclopedia as a free service to comic fans from all over the world. The database has expanded to over 12,000 biographies of international comic artists, and also has an extensive Dutch section about comics in the Netherlands.
For 15 years, the site was funded from the resources of our Amsterdam-based shop. However, the current economical circumstances make it difficult for us to maintain this service. At the moment the Comiclopedia's sole editor works for us free of charge, aided by a couple of (international) volunteers.
If you want to help us continue and improve our ever- expanding database, we would appreciate your donation through Paypal.
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Welcome to the Comiclopedia, an illustrated compendium of over 14,000 comic creators from around the world. Find your favorite artists, or discover new ones!
Online since 1 November 1999, the Comiclopedia is the world's largest overview of comic artists, and the brainchild of comic shop Lambiek's founder Kees Kousemaker (1942-2010). Kees was at the vanguard of promoting comics as art, and both the Lambiek store and the website are continuing in his spirit. The editors/writers of the Comiclopedia are Bas Schuddeboom and Kjell Knudde. Pleasecontact them for corrections or additions.
Lambiek's overview ofDutch Comics History (in Dutch)
The history of Europe's oldest comics shop: The Story of Lambiek (in English and Dutch).
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Latest Additions
- Mon 24 Mar '25Marc Henniquiau Belgium (expanded biography)
- Sun 23 Mar '25Wouter Winter Netherlands (added)
- Mars Gremmen Netherlands (new biography)
- Thu 20 Mar '25Lo Hartog van Banda Netherlands (revised entry)
- Mon 17 Mar '25Carolyn Kelly United States (revised entry)
- Frans Hasselaar Netherlands (expanded biography)
- Tuli Kupferberg United States (added)
- Sat 15 Mar '25Hans G. Kresse Netherlands (revised entry)
- Fri 7 Mar '25Buth Belgium (revised entry)
- Sun 2 Mar '25Helmert R. Mulder Netherlands (revised entry)
- Thu 27 Feb '25Maurice Roggeman Belgium (added)
- Ray Helle United States (new biography)
- Ben Zaehringer United States (added)
- Wed 26 Feb '25Eric Cougrand France (added)
- Kaneko Shigemasa Japan (added)
- Tue 25 Feb '25Theo Gootjes Netherlands (added)
- Léon Van Roey Belgium (added)
- Stu Goldman United States (added)
- Mon 24 Feb '25Hassan Fedawy Egypt (added)
- Sun 23 Feb '25Pierre Dmitrow France (new biography)
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