In 1877 the samurai met their inevitable end. Under Emperor Mutsuhito, the modernization of Japan no longer gave space to superheroes with katanas. But theirs was not a silent end. Here are some short stories...

Rupelmonde Castle was dark and austere. Looking at it from afar elicited a shiver of fear, but seeing it from the inside was equivalent to peering into a monster from within. Gerhard tried not to...

"Now all these people who hang around me enjoy making judgments. There's that American guy who came specifically to visit me and who's going around saying that I'm very intelligent. The tall one with glasses,...

How far is Japan? Let's start from here: just over a hundred years ago it was very far away. When the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 brought objects and images from Japan to Europe,...

Jacob Christoph Le Blon was a perfectionist, and all printers today must be grateful to him for that. If he hadn't been so precise, attentive to details and minutiae, color printing as we know it...

What disturbs our dreams more than a huge, wide-open mouth full of teeth and ready to swallow us? The mouth is that of the gigantic shark from Jaws , the film directed by Steven Spielberg...

24 July 2015. Olivier Debie is sitting in his studio overlooking the Meuse, in the heart of Liège. On the flat screen they broadcast the most awaited event of the year: the presentation of the...

Marie was four years old when she made a pact with Bronislawa and with all the women: "we will always help each other, I will always help you". He felt guilty because he had somehow...

“Brush, ink, paper and stone: the four treasures of ink art. But Wei Tang believed that one of them shone brightest. They say that Wei Tang did not have a good character. He was dully,...