Abstract
On July 20, 2011—on eve of Belgian national day—the weekly bande dessinee magazine Spirou published an issue whose sales figures were two and three and a half times higher than usual in France and respectively.1 It was a Save Belgium special issue, in which, aside from series underway, magazine literally bears Belgian standard and broaches topic of crisis.2 If authors of Spirou offered solutions that are as extreme as they are off wall, it is because situation itself had taken on extraordinary proportions. Indeed, already held record of the longest-running government formation in living memory.3 What is source of problem? What are solutions? What is king doing? These are three recurring preoccupations in short stories created by Dugomier and Ers (Exorcisme communautaire), Dal and Bercovici (Plus belge la vie) and Feroumont (Le Royaume).4 After exploring main lines of what constituted this Belgian crisis and ext...
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