Spirou's design was changed through the years by the various writers and artists who created his adventures but he has kept his spiky red-hair and clothes of the same colour even after ditching his hotel uniform.

While he and reporter colleague Fantasio occasionally pursue stories, in most cases they simply find themselves in the centre of adventures.

An honest and brave young man of indeterminate age, he tries to fight injustice around him and help people.

He is usually more level-headed than Fantasio, who always accompanies him, along with the pet squirrel Spip, and during the period of Franquin authorship, the Marsupilami.

[2] Spirou is part of the Comic Book Route and can be found at Place Sainctelette in Brussels.