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Comiclopedia (Lambiek)

Comiclopedia

Lambiek is one of the oldest comic shops and sequential art galleries in the world, known for its impressive collection of comics and famous as a meeting point for comic artists, collectors and fans.

Located in the centre of Amsterdam and founded in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker, it was for a long time a popular landmark on the Kerkstraat near Leidseplein. In 2015, Lambiek had to leave the Kerkstraat and move to Koningsstraat 27, near the Nieuwmarkt. Here you can read his full story.

Comiclopedia is his ever-growing digital comic encyclopaedia project. There you can access a directory of authors with more than 11,000 entries, many of them very well documented, among which you will also find references to some 950 Spanish cartoonists and their works.

The Newsstand

The Newstand

Now comes the turn for those pages that, although they don't have downloads or complete comics to read online, are very useful to organise your comics, locate authors, comics by date and find more information about the works and their creators.

One of them is The Newsstand, what we know here as a newsstand, which is just one of the different utilities that the site has Mike's Amazing World.

The site, which catalogues and indexes comics from a variety of publishers, offers features including tools to search and display information about comic book stories and characters, cover galleries and creator credits.

You can begin your exploration by selecting a feature from the menu or by entering the title of a comic in its search engine.

Whakoom

Whakoom

The idea of Whakoom is as simple as it is attractive and useful for any fan with a small or large comic collection. It is a social network where you can register and organise your comic collection and search for missing issues of certain series or unique albums that you would like to hunt down.

In 2013, Whakoom had already catalogued some 80,000 comics, and now it is very likely that it has well over a million publications catalogued in the different collections created by its users. According to its own figures, it already has more than 100,000 users. Here is my account.

Access to its immense list is free under registration, although you can also have some extra options, from a couple of euros a month.

Tebeosfera

Tebeosfera

Tebeosfera is a comprehensive site about comics, novels, cinema, games and popular graphic culture directed by Manuel Barrero and managed by the Asociación Cultural Tebeosfera

According to its own description, Tebeosfera is a digital publication dedicated to the research and cultural dissemination of graphic narrative and popular audiovisual culture (in any of its manifestations), graphic humour and other related media. Tebeosfera is not a company, it is non-profit and does not receive any subsidy.

I don't know the total amount of articles, books, comics, information about authors and publishers and various references it has, but to give you an idea of the volume, only in terms of authors it already has more than 5000 listed.

A valuable page and a must for researchers and disseminators of graphic art, readers and fans of comics and graphic humour.

Humoristán

Humoristan

Humoristán is a digital museum of graphic humour created by the Gin Foundation as a non-profit cultural project that houses exhibitions, interviews, information about some authors, as well as articles and abundant related graphic material.

The Gin Foundation was created in June 1997 in memory of and in homage to the cartoonist, Jordi Ginés Soteras, Gin (1930-1996) with the aim of keeping his memory alive, and of disseminating and promoting graphic humour, both nationally and internationally.

Humoristán is another interesting corner to visit to discover much more about certain authors and their works.