It’s impossible to live in Brussels and miss the fact that it is a city that delights in its comic book heroes. Far from the impossible superheroes of Marvel, Belgium’s comics characters have their feet firmly planted on the ground, whether as intrepid boy journalists or simple physicists who can’t seem to stay out of trouble. For an entire month, these two characters and many, many more will be in the spotlight during the Brussels Comic Strip Festival. Usually a three-day festival, this is the second year in a row that corona has thrown a spanning in the works. This year, organiser Visit Brussels chose to spread it out over several weeks – which is no bad thing, says Micha Kapetanovic.