Brussels' Comic Book Route


Brussels' Comic Book Route is a path composed by several comic strip murals, which cover the walls of several buildings throughout the inner City of Brussels, as well as the neighborhoods of Laeken and Auderghem. The large comic strip murals depict scenes from various popular Belgian comics, for instance The Adventures of Tintin, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Gaston, Marsupilami and Gil Jourdan.
The project began in 1991 as an initiative of the local authorities of the City of Brussels in collaboration with the Belgian Comic Strip Center. Initially, the project only intended to embellish empty walls and gables of buildings in the city. It then became an opportunity to celebrate the rich comic book heritage of Brussels, which claims to be the capital of the "comic strip".
Today, the Brussels' Comic Book Route offers more than 50 mural paintings, most of them located inside the Pentagon. Following its trail, the Comic Book Route is a good way to discover the capital and even penetrate some neighborhoods less crowded by tourists. The Brussels tourist association organizes a 2-hour bike tour starting at the Bicycle Riders House.
Broussaille was the first comic book wall to be painted, based on an original project of the Belgian comic book artist Frank Pé. With its surface of about, the mural painting was inaugurated in July 1991 at the intersection between the central streets Rue du Marché au Charbon/Kolenmarkt and Rue des Teinturiers/Verversstraat. As with most of the mural paintings, the Belgian association Art Mural was in charge of the execution of the fresco painting.
Art Mural is an association created by five artists in 1984, mainly aimed to realise mural painting in public areas. Since 1993, it has been devoted to the creation and realisation of new murals for Brussels' Comic Book Route, with a rhythm of two to three new works per year. Georgios Oreopoulos and David Vandegeerde are the only two remaining founder members of the association, having been involved in all the projects and mural paintings, helped with a large number of other artists who have collaborated and worked together with them.

List of comic strip mural paintings

In the centre of Brussels

N°Mural paintingAuthorDateRealisationLocationSurface
1:fr:Victor_Sackville|Victor SackvilleFrancis CarinAugust 2002Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Marché au Charbon / Rue des Teinturiers
± 50 m²
2:fr:Broussaille_|BroussailleFrank PéSeptember 1999Mangnay J.-Y.
Oreopoulos G.
Pieterhons R.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Marché au Charbon 39 / Rue des Teinturiers
± 45 m²
3Le PassageFrançois SchuitenJuly 1995Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Marché au Charbon 17
±20 m²
4Ric HochetTibetNovember 1994Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Bon Secours 9
±30 m²
5The Adventures of TintinHergéJuly 2005Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		 33
± 36 m²
6:fr:Olivier_Rameau|Olivier RameauDanyJune 1997Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Chêne 9
±60 m²
7Le jeune AlbertYves ChalandMay 2000Mangnay J.-Y.
Oreopoulos G.
Pieterhons R.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Alexiens 49
± 110 m²
8:fr:Monsieur_Jean_|Monsieur JeanDupuy and BerberianNovember 2002Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Bogards / Rue du Midi
± 64 m²
9XIIIWilliam Vance
Jean Van Hamme		September – October 2010Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Kuleczko R.		Rue Philippe de Champagne 33
± 43 m²
10Yoko TsunoRoger LeloupJune 2010Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Ardila A.
Kuleczko R.
Dussart G.		Rue Terre-Neuve 15
± 55 m²
11IsabelleWillOctober 1997Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue de la Verdure 13
±86 m²
12The Adventures of NeroMarc SleenMay 1995Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Place Saint-Géry 20
±40 m²
13L'AngeYslaireMay 1998Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Chartreux 19
± 22 m²
14AstérixGoscinny and UderzoAugust 2005Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Marcelle Bordier
Koen Weiss		Rue de la Buanderie 15
± 145 m²
15Lucky LukeMorrisJune 1993Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue de la Buanderie / Rue 't Kindt±180 m²
16Cori, de Scheepsjongen Bob de MoorSeptember 1998Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Fabriques 21
± 48 m²
17:fr:Nic_|Les rêves de NicHermann HuppenOctober 1999Mangnay J.-Y.
Oreopoulos G.
Pieterhons R.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Fabriques / Rue de la Senne
± 160 m²
18Caroline BaldwinAndré Taymans and Bruno WeselJuly 2003Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Place de Ninove 10
±150 m²
19Blake and MortimerEdgar P. JacobsMay–June 2005Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Houblon 24
±104 m²
20CubitusDupaOctober 1994Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue de Flandre 109
±35 m²
21Billy the catStéphane Colman and Stephen DesbergJuly 2000Mangnay J.-Y.
Oreopoulos G.
Pieterhons R.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue d'Ophem 24
± 50 m²
22Spike and SuzyWilly VandersteenJune 1995Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue de Laeken 116
±25 m²
23FC de KampioenenHec LeemansApril 2011ART MURAL asbl.
Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Ardila A.
Kuleczko R.
Dussart G.		Rue du Canal 27
±90 m²
24Corto MalteseHugo PrattAugust - September 2009Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Ardila A.
Kuleczko R.
Dussart G.		Quai des péniches
± 850 m²
25La Vache Johan De MoorMarch - April 1999d'Hainaut E.
Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Damier 23
32 m²
26Gaston statueAndré FranquinFebruary 1996Delhaize Le LionBoulevard Pachéco / Rue des Sables
-
27Le ScorpionEnrico MariniMay 2002Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Treurenberg 16
± 35 m²
28PojeCauvin and CarpentierUnknownOreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue de l'Ecuyer 55 / Rue de dominicains
Inconnu
29GastonAndré FranquinFebruary 2007Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue de l'Écuyer 9
± 39 m²
30Quick & FlupkeHergéJuly 1996Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Capucins / Rue Haute 191
±150 m²
31Odilon VerjusLaurent Verron and Yann le PennetierJune 2004Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Capucins 13
± 33 m²
32Blondin et CirageJijéNovember 1998Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Capucins 15
± 32 m²
33Passe-moi l'cielStuf and JanryJuly 2002Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Minimes 96
± 28 m²
34Boule et BillJean RobaOctober 1995Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue du Chevreuil 19
25 m²
35La Patrouille des CastorsMitacqApril 2003Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue Blaes 200 / Rue Pieremans 47
± 50 m²
36JojoAndré GeertsSeptember 1996Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue Piermans 41
±56 m²
37Le ChatPhilippe GeluckAugust 1993Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Bld du Midi 87
±80 m²
38Heads of Tintin and SnowyHergéUnknownLombard EditionsAvenue Paul-Henri Spaak 7
-
39Tintin in AmericaHergéJanuary 2007-Hall of the South railway stationUnknown
40Signor SpaghettiDino AttanasioUnknownUnknownRue van Bergen 22
Unknown
41YakariDerib and JobUnknownUnknownRue Dethy 25
Unknown
42SpirouRobert VelterUnknownUnknownPlace Sainctelette, 2
Unknown
43Thorgal & AariciaJean Van Hamme and Grzegorz RosińskiNovember 2013Grzegorz RosinskiPlace Anneessens 2a
Unknown

In La(e)ken

N°Mural paintingAuthorDateRealisationLocationSurface
1TiteufZepSeptember 2006Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Weiss K.
Ardila A.		Avenue Emile Bockstael 1
± 160 m²
2Gil JourdanMaurice TillieuxMay 2009Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Ardila A.
Kuleczko R.		Rue Léopold 1er / Rue Thys-Vanhamstraat
± 77 m²
3NatachaFrançois WalthéryOctober 2009Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Ardila A.
Kuleczko R.
Dussart G.		Rue Jan Bollen 23
± 200 m²
4MartineMarcel Marlier and Gilbert DelahayeOctober 2004Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Avenue de la Reine 325 / Rue Stéphanie
± 180 m²
5Le Roi des mouchesMezzoJune 2007Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Pieterhons R.		Rue Hubert Stiernet 23
± 96 m²
6LincolnOlivier Jouvray and Jérôme JouvrayMay 2006Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Rue des Palais outre-pont / Rue Arthur Cosyn
± 120 m²
7KiekeboeMerhoApril 2009Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.
Ardila A.
Kuleczko R.		Av. du Gros Tilleul / Av. de Madrid
± 81 m²
8Petit SpirouTome and JanryMay 1996Oreopoulos G.
Vandegeerde D.		Boulevard du Centenaire, Place de Bruparck
±50 m²

In Auderghem