Isabelle (comics)

Isabelle was a Belgian comic series drawn by Will and written by André Franquin, Delporte and Raymond Macherot.

Created by a top team of already-famous contributors to the magazine, the series gained a small but fanatical following.

The first stories were written by Franquin (of Gaston Lagaffe fame), Delporte (editor of Spirou and writer of many comics) and Macherot (creator of Sibylline).

[1] The little girl Isabelle (named after Franquin's daughter) gets into a lot of adventures when the evil witch Kalendula troubles Isabelle's uncle Hermès and his fiancée, the good witch Calendula (who is the descendant of the evil Kalendula).

The drawings are packed with details and the poetic nature of the stories comes through in the imaginative animals and backgrounds.

Main characters Isabelle and Calendula