Murals
Work painted at building scale, mostly in Brussels, where alternative cartoonists were given walls alongside the mainstream Franco-Belgian names.
Part of Underground Comics
7 moments in this segment.
- - Le Passage wall. Francois Schuiten painted an architectural passage on Rue du Marche au Charbon, continuing the invented cities he and Benoit Peeters built in Les Cites obscures.
- - Le jeune Albert wall. Yves Chaland drew Le Jeune Albert as a brutal Brussels street kid in a deliberately retro line lifted from 1950s Belgian comics. Chaland died in a car crash in 1990; the wall on Rue des Alexiens went up afterwards.
- - Monsieur Jean wall. Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian carried their Monsieur Jean onto a Brussels wall. The series followed a Paris novelist through ordinary indecision and was one of the titles that made the 1990s French small press readable to a wide audience.
- - Broussaille wall. Frank Pe put his character Broussaille on a corner near Rue du Marche au Charbon. The couple in the painting were repainted in 1999 after the original version was read as a heterosexual pairing.
- - Le roi des mouches wall. Mezzo and Pirus adapted their album Le roi des mouches for a gable on Rue Hubert Stiernet. The strip itself ran through the 2000s as a black and white suburban noir.
- - Kinky and Cosy facade. Nix, the pen name of Marnix Verduyn, put his twin girls Kinky and Cosy on the Mutualite Socialiste du Brabant. The gag strip runs on flat colour and deadpan cruelty.
- - Ralf Konig wall, Brussels. Ralf Konig painted the front of the Rainbowhouse on Rue du Marche au Charbon with his round-nosed gay cartoon figures. Konig came out of the German comics fanzine scene of the early 1980s.