La Galérie du 9e art is currently hosting an exhibition of a series of portraits of classic Franco-Belgian comic characters, as drawn by comic creator Frank Pe.  Most of these paintings, featuring Corto Maltese, Lucky Luke, Little Nemo, the Marsupilami and many others, are also present in a book that was published earlier this month by Dupuis.  The exhibition also includes a few paintings for which reproduction rights for the book were not secured, namely images of characters by Hergé (Haddock, Alan, Laszlo Carreidas) and Peyo (some quite hilarious smurfs).  Worth checking out.
