Belgium’s comic museum marks 25 years of high art

This doesn't look like the Moustique Hotel ... ! A visitor walking past a figure of the famous Belgian comic-strip character Spirou the bellboy, who was also a reporter and adventurer.

Belgium’s famed comic museum marks 25 years of high art.

Comics are serious business in the land of Tintin and the Smurfs, and nowhere more so than in Europe's biggest and oldest museum dedicated to the art form. Enter the Belgium Comic Strip Centre, which just turned 25 on Oct 6, and you pass a giant model of the red-and-white moon rocket used by the boy detective with the ginger quiff, along with life-size replicas from other famed comics.