Comic Strip - Atom style

Gaston at work. Gaston is cleaning one of the nine spheres of  the Atomium, Belgium's famous construction for the Universal Exhibition held in Brussels in 1958. Its name is at the origin of the comic strips Atom. 

(from BeauxArts Hors Série,Les secrets des chefs-d'oeuvre de la BD d'humour)
http://www.beauxartsmagazine.com/0125-1127-Les-secrets-des-chefs-d-uvre-de-la-BD-d-humour.html
http://www.thecomicstrips.com/subject/The-Atom-Comic-Strips.php

Simply Brussels

Nothing special today... just Brussels on a dreary Saturday afternoon. For those of you who know the city a bit and have exceptionally good eyes, the last photo has the Atomium in it, right in the middle. For those of you who do not know what the Atomium is, it is the Belgian equivalent of the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty  -;) http://atomium.be/#/History.aspx "The Atomium was the main pavilion and icon of the World Fair of Brussels (1958), commonly called Expo 58. It symbolised the democratic will to maintain peace among all the nations, faith in progress, both technical and scientific and, finally, an optimistic vision of the future of a modern, new, super-technological world for a better life for mankind". 

Dotspot

Not far from Gallery Botier (previous posting) is Dotspot. It was not until after I got home and looked at the pictures on the computer that I noticed that the atoms of the Atomium were Brussels sprouts.
The Atomium  symbolizes an elementary crystal. It was the main pavilion and icon of the World Fair of Brussels (1958), known as Expo 58. 
http://atomium.be/
http://www.dotspot.be/


Dotspot
rue de la Madeleine 31
Brussels

Easter in Brussels

A gift from Croatia's Koprivnica-Križevac region, this painted Easter egg is on display at Brussel's "Sablon" square. It is customary to give painted eggs at Easter in Eastern European countries. In Belgium the custom is, of course, to give chocolate eggs!  The Atomium, icon of Belgium and symbol of the 1958 World fair held in Brussels, appears on the egg.

The egg painters are Vladimir Dolenec, Branko Matina, Stjepan Pongrac and Ljerka Tropsek.