


Initially, the project only intended to embellish empty walls and gables of buildings in the city. 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. 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.

Comic mural in the Stoofstraat depicting a scene from The Calculus Affair, featuring Tintin and Captain Haddockīrussels' Comic Book Route (or The comic strip route in Brussels) 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.
