Alternative Brussels: Comic Strip Tour

Antoine Murtha

Updated: 26 May 2026 ·

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Alternative Brussels: Comic Strip Tour

Belgium and comics have a love story that needs no introduction. Let's embark on a lovely journey that celebrates the 9th art!

The Belgian Comic Strip Center

To discover comics, there's no better place to start than the Belgian Comic Strip Center (CBBD). Just for the architecture of the building, the visit is worth it. To give you an idea, I visited it with my school over 15 years ago, and it's the architecture of the building that I remembered most!

The museum traces the history of comics and explains the various stages of creating a comic strip from the first sketches to the printing techniques. It's point 3 on the comic strip tour below.

This weekend, the CBBD will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Its director has decided to reflect on the next 25 years and the role of a museum in an increasingly digital world. With this in mind, they have teamed up with Google to create a sort of Google Street View tour of the museum. Of course, a Google car didn't drive into the building; it's a pushcart they used.

The system was supposed to be ready by Saturday, but it seems that it may have taken a bit longer...

Street Art Tour

The streets of Brussels boast numerous murals, with dozens of giant frescos adorning the walls of the capital.

Here's a well-known list allowing for a more or less extensive itinerary featuring the main murals.

  • The Scorpion
  • Statue of Gaston Lagaffe
  • Belgian Comic Strip Center
  • Marc Sleen Museum (permanent exhibition)
  • Bob and Bobette
  • FC De Kampionen
  • Cubitus
  • Billy the Cat
  • Blake & Mortimer
  • The Dreams of Nic
  • Cori the Mussel
  • Lucky Luke
  • Asterix
  • Nero
  • The Archangel
  • The Passage
  • Broussaille
  • Victor Sackville
  • Ric Hochet
  • Mr. Jean
  • XIII
  • Yoko Tsuno
  • Stam & Pilou
  • Young Albert
  • Olivier Rameau
  • Tintin
  • MooF (Museum of Original Figurines)
  • The House of Comics

As you stroll around the downtown area and its surroundings, you'll discover many more, like the one of Little Spirou at Brupark, or my favorite, the one of Gaston Lagaffe at Rue de l'Écuyer. I even noted (in red on the map) a little detour between point 4 and point 5, towards point G (for Gaston, what were you thinking?). To avoid spoiling (that's a funny Quebec term, a translation of the English word 'spoiler'), I didn't photograph the whole fresco; it's up to you to discover what blunder he has made this time!

If you plan to take a tour in the Marolles neighborhood, go see the fresco of Quick and Flupke. By the way, if you want to get a sense of the atmosphere of this popular neighborhood in the 1930s, this comic series created by Hergé will delight you!

Do you have a favorite as well?

To continue the stroll...