Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968^[1] by Kees Kousemaker, though since 2007 his son Boris Kousemaker is the current owner. From 1968 to 2015 it was located in the Kerkstraat, but in November 2015 the store moved to the Koningsstraat 27.^[2] As of 2018, Lambiek is the oldest comics store in Europe,^[3] and the oldest worldwide still in existence.^[4][5]

The name "Lambiek" originated as a misspelling of the name of the comics character Lambik, from the popular Suske & Wiske comic book series created by Belgian artist Willy Vandersteen. The logo of the shop is an image from the Suske en Wiske album Prinses Zagemeel (Princess Sawdust).^[6]

An older comic book store is known to have opened in Europe prior to Kousemaker's: eorge Henderson's Canadian, Toronto-based Memory Lane Books opened in May 1967,^[7] (itself a continuation of the Viking Bookshop he had already opened on another location in the spring of 1966^[8]), which makes Lambiek the third oldest store. All three stores had a strong focus on underground comics in common. However, Memory Lane Books closed in the 1980s, and Arlington's store closed in 2002.^[9]

• Kousemaker received the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award in 1995.^[10]
• On 9–10 October 1999 Kousemaker won the annual P. Hans Frankfurther Prize.^[11]
• In 2006 Kousemaker was the recipient of the Order of Orange-Nassau medal from the Netherlands for his special dedication to the history of comic books.^[12]

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