March Sleen’s Nero comic displayed in Tirana

TIRANA, May 29 – Nero, a humoristic and optimistic comic book character for the general public, was featured in Albania in an exhibition by Belgian author Marc Sleen. The exhibition brought to Albania by the Belgian Embassy to Albania, located in Bulgaria, in collaboration with the ‘Marc Sleen Foundation’, remained open at the Comedy Theater in Tirana from 15 until 31 May 2013.
Sleen’s work has been recognized on numerous occasions and has won many awards. Nero is a humoristic and optimistic comic book character for the general public. Through the character Nero, Marc Sleen tells with an incomparable enthusiasm and an extraordinary imagination the hilarious adventures Nero and his friends’ encounter. He always places them in improbable situations which challenge the limit of the reasonable. Contrary to other comic book characters as Tintin, Lucky Luke or Spirou, Nero is not a hero strictly speaking. He is a typical man who dreams only to read his newspaper, laze about, a glass of beer and a portion of French fries within reach. The exhibition depicts not only the extraordinary artistic and linguistic talents of the author, but also his interest for nature, wild animals and safaris.