Comic strip route in Brussels

Brussels has painted its comic heroes on house walls since 1991. This walk links twenty of the best-known murals, from the Comics Art Museum past Manneken Pis and Saint-Géry to the Marolles.

Last updated: 24 October 2026

6.5 km on foot, about 80 min of walking in total.

The route

1. 1

   Comics Art Museum (Belgian Comic Strip Center)

   Museum · Grand-Place/Centre · 🕗 Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, last tickets 17:00 (closed Mon, except July–August)

   

   Tintin, the Smurfs and Spirou in a Victor Horta Art Nouveau department store.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.7 km · 9 min walk

2. 2

   Gaston Lagaffe

   André Franquin, 2007 · Rue de l'Écuyer 15

   

   Franquin's clumsy office junior, who first wandered into the margins of Spirou magazine in 1957, a few steps from the Grand-Place.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.6 km · 8 min walk

3. 3

   The Smurfs

   Peyo, 2018 · Carrefour de l'Europe 3

   

   Peyo's little blue villagers, born in Spirou magazine in 1958, on a wall by the Hilton passage just below Central Station.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.6 km · 7 min walk

4. 4

   Olivier Rameau

   Dany and Greg, 1997 · Rue du Chêne 9

   

   A notary who rides a runaway tram into Rêverose, a colourful dream world far from the 'real world where you get bored'.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 2 min walk

5. 5

   Tintin

   Hergé, 2005 · Rue de l'Étuve 37

   

   Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock hurry down a fire escape, a scene from The Calculus Affair, on the street that leads to Manneken Pis.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 3 min walk

6. 6

   The Passage

   François Schuiten, 1995 · Rue du Marché au Charbon 19

   

   A trompe-l'oeil doorway into the Obscure Cities, Schuiten's dreamlike world of impossible architecture.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 2 min walk

7. 7

   Broussaille

   Frank Pé, 1991, repainted 2020 · Rue du Marché au Charbon 39

   

   The very first mural of the route (1991): the city chose a comic over a billboard for this run-down wall. Broussaille is Frank Pé's nature-loving young Brusselaar.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.1 km · 2 min walk

8. 8

   Victor Sackville

   Francis Carin, 1992 · Rue du Marché au Charbon 60

   

   Code name X67: a British spy sent to occupied Brussels in the First World War, from a series known for its historical detail.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 2 min walk

9. 9

   Ric Hochet

   Tibet and André-Paul Duchâteau, 1994, redone 2018 · Rue du Bon Secours 9

   

   On a street fittingly called 'Good Help', the reporter-detective risks everything to save Nadine from an attacker while Commissioner Bourdon looks on.

   To the next stop: 🚶 0.3 km · 4 min walk

10. 10

    Nero

    Marc Sleen, 1995, restored 2020 · Place Saint-Géry 20

    

    A human pyramid with Nero triumphant on top, parsley behind his ear, held up by Marc Sleen's whole cast.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.5 km · 6 min walk

11. 11

    Asterix

    Goscinny and Uderzo, 2005 · Rue de la Buanderie 33

    

    Fresh from the magic potion, the Gauls storm a Roman camp that won't hold out for long.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.1 km · 2 min walk

12. 12

    Lucky Luke

    Morris, 1993 · Rue 't Kint 54

    

    Lucky Luke guards a bank while the four Dalton brothers line up below a wanted poster, with Jolly Jumper in front. Spot the Atomium on the horizon.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.7 km · 9 min walk

13. 13

    Kinky & Cosy

    Nix, 2016 · Rue de la Gouttière 24

    

    The two cheeky twin sisters from Nix's award-winning gag strip.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.1 km · 2 min walk

14. 14

    Monsieur Jean

    Dupuy and Berberian, 2002 · Rue des Bogards 28

    

    A thirty-something Parisian writer drifting through everyday life, drawn in a clean, elegant line.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 3 min walk

15. 15

    XIII

    William Vance and Jean Van Hamme, 2010 · Rue Philippe de Champagne 31

    

    The misty, frozen New York of the thriller series about an amnesiac hero with a tattoo as his only clue.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 2 min walk

16. 16

    Yoko Tsuno

    Roger Leloup, 2010 · Rue Terre-Neuve 25

    

    The Japanese electronics engineer who travels on Earth, in space and through time, one of the first comic heroines to lead her own series.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.4 km · 4 min walk

17. 17

    Young Albert

    Yves Chaland, 2000 · Rue des Alexiens 49

    

    Albert, a sly anti-hero in a red coat, reading in 1950s Brussels, complete with yellow trams and period cars.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.4 km · 5 min walk

18. 18

    Quick & Flupke

    Hergé, 2015 · Rue Notre-Seigneur 19

    

    Hergé's two Marolles street kids, always in trouble with the local policeman, here playing bricklayers on a wall in their own neighbourhood.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 2 min walk

19. 19

    Blake and Mortimer

    Edgar P. Jacobs, 2021 · Rue du Temple 6

    The cover of The Yellow 'M', with the British duo in foggy London, painted here in 2021 after two earlier walls were lost.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.3 km · 4 min walk

20. 20

    Spirou

    Yoann and Fabien Vehlmann, 2014 · Rue Notre-Dame de Grâces 3

    

    Spirou, Fantasio and Spip mobbed by bargain hunters at the flea market on Place du Jeu de Balle, a few streets away.

    To the next stop: 🚶 0.2 km · 2 min walk

21. 21

    Passe-moi l'ciel

    Stuf and Janry, 2002 · Rue des Minimes 93

    

    A tall, narrow wall with heaven at the top and hell at the bottom: in this gag strip Saint Peter asks the questions, and a wrong answer sends you down.

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