# The best Franco-Belgian comics of all time

The series and albums that top readers' rankings (Bedetheque's Indispensables, Babelio) and critics' selections, from the ligne claire to the graphic novel.

- 17 votes · 29 items
- Dec 7, 2022 · Damien Gautier
- https://even.best/en/l/307/the-best-franco-belgian-comics-of-all-time

## Top 22

1. **The Adventures of Tintin** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hergé, 1929–1976. The quiffed reporter and Snowy; with Astérix, the best-known Franco-Belgian comic in the world.
2. **Asterix** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Goscinny and Uderzo, 1959–. The little Gaulish village that resists the invader; over 380 million albums sold.
3. **Blacksad** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, 2000–. A cat detective in 1950s America; top of a readers' participatory ranking.
4. **Gomer Goof (Gaston)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — André Franquin, 1957–. The office bungler at the Spirou magazine.
5. **Blake and Mortimer — The Yellow 'M'** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Edgar P. Jacobs, 1953–1954. For many the masterpiece of the ligne claire, set in a threatened London.
6. **Lucky Luke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Morris, later with Goscinny, 1946–. The cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, and the Daltons.
7. **Spirou & Fantasio** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Franquin, Fournier, Tome & Janry and others, 1938–. The bellboy and the Marsupilami; 'QRN sur Bretzelburg' remains a cult album.
8. **Blueberry** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud, 1963–. The realistic western by the future Moebius.
9. **The Incal** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, 1980–1988. John Difool and a cosmic stone; comics' great space opera.
10. **De Cape et de Crocs** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alain Ayroles and Jean-Luc Masbou, 1995–. A fox and a wolf speaking in alexandrines, between Cyrano and Molière.
11. **The Passengers of the Wind** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — François Bourgeon, 1979–. Isa and the slave trade in the 18th century.
12. **Lanfeust of Troy** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Christophe Arleston and Didier Tarquin, 1994–. A blacksmith's apprentice with the power to melt metal.
13. **The Arab of the Future** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Riad Sattouf, 2014–2022. His childhood between Libya, Syria and Brittany; six volumes and a best-seller.
14. **The Bluecoats** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Raoul Cauvin, Salvérius and Lambil, 1968–. Blutch and Chesterfield in the American Civil War.
15. **Largo Winch** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, 1990–. An orphan inherits a financial empire.
16. **XIII** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, 1984–. An amnesiac tattooed with the number XIII and a presidential conspiracy.
17. **Thorgal** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosiński, 1977–. A child of the stars among the Vikings.
18. **The Smurfs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peyo, 1958–. The little blue creatures born in Johan and Peewit.
19. **Valérian and Laureline** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières, 1967–2010. Space-time agents; an acknowledged influence on Star Wars.
20. **The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jacques Tardi, 1976–. A novelist and monsters in Belle Époque Paris.
21. **The Dark Cities** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Series by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters (since 1983), imaginary architectures and fantastic cities.
22. **Titeuf** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zep series (since 1993) about a boy with blond hair who discovers the world of adults.
23. **The Cat** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Character of Philippe Geluck born in 1983 in Le Soir, king of the absurd and puns.
24. **The Bidochon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Series by Christian Binet (1977) about an average French couple, satire of everyday life.
25. **The Transperceneige** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Comic strip by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette (1982), a train that runs endlessly on a frozen Earth.
26. **Ball and Bill** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Series by Jean Roba (1959) about a little boy and his cocker spaniel, first published in Spirou.
27. **Le Petit Spirou** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Series by Tome et Janry (1987) on the childhood of Spirou's hero.
28. **The Quest for the Time Bird** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Serge Le Tendre and Régis Loisel, 1983–. Pélisse, Bragon and the conch of Ramor; a fantasy classic.
29. **Persepolis** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Marjane Satrapi, 2000–2003. A childhood in revolutionary Iran, in black and white.

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