Belgian comic strip writer Jean-Claude Servais will be a special guest at the third Comics Festival in Vietnam to be held in Hanoi from May 31 to June 10.

During the 11-day event, which is co-organised by the Wallonia-Brussels Delegation and Kim Dong Publishing House, there will be an exhibition dedicated to the famous writer, whose stories usually take place in the forests of the Ardennes .

Jean Auquier, the founder of the Comics Festival in Vietnam , who is also director of the Brussels-based Belgian Comic strip Centre (CBBD), will be attending the festival.

While Servais will hold a creative workshop with Vietnamese artists and comic strip writers, Auquier will meet school and university students in Hanoi.-VNA