Belgium is not only a country of beer and chocolate. It also has a rich comic strip culture, with characters such as Tintin, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Largo Winch or Blake & Mortimer, to name just a few. For the comic strip fan, there are plenty of things to do in Belgium.
Since 1993, the city of Brussels started to integrate comic strips into the city’s architecture. So far, there are well over 40 comic strip walls dispersed throughout the city (35 inside the ring, 8 in Laeken). These walls typically use side facades, and blend in well with the urban landscape. Some add a touch to an otherwise dull landscape. Others are meant for urban regeneration. The walls are best visited by walk.
This walk takes you all over the town, and is a nice way to discover some of the less frequented areas of Brussels. Doing the entire walk will take the best part of a day, but the walls come in groups, and you can select a segment of the walk that suits you best. Look at our album map of the walls where you can identify a center, southern and northwestern group of comic strip walls.
Comic strip walls in Brussels weergeven op een grotere kaart
Other things in Belgium for comic strip fans:
- Comic strip walls in Antwerp - a more modest project with 8 walls so far
- Comic strip museum in Brussels
- Hergé museum in Louvain-La-Neuve
- Marc Sleen Museum in Brussels (across the street from the Comic strip museum of Brussels.
