The Spirou and Fantasio Comics in Wartime

Spirou and Fantasio :

• “Groom vert de gris” (The Green-Grey Bellboy) by Schwartz & Yann
• “Spirou, journal d’un ingénu” (Spirou, Diary of an Ingénue) by Emile Bravo
• “L’espoir malgré tout” (Hope in Spite of Everything) by Emile Bravo

These comic books are from the series “Le Spirou de…” offering the visions of several artists of the comic book character Spirou and his companions. Their common point is that they all take place during the Second World War, in Brussels and more widely in Belgium. Spirou is a bellboy at the Moustic Hotel while Fantasio, now a soldier, is assigned to Fort Eben-Emael, the centerpiece of the Fortified Position of Liege. Both are dragged into political plots and schemes and try, without much success, to stop the war in progress.