Quick & Flupke

The exploits of Quick and Flupke (French: Quick et Flupke, gamins de Bruxelles, lit. 'Quick and Flupke, urchins of Brussels') is a comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Serialised weekly from January 1930 to 1940 in Le Petit Vingtième, the children's supplement of conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle ("The Twentieth Century"), the series ran alongside Hergé's better known The Adventures of Tintin. It continued for one extra year in Le Soir Jeunesse until 1941. It revolves around the lives of two misbehaving boys, Quick and Flupke, who live in Brussels, and the conflict that they get into with a local policeman called Officer 15 (Agent no. 15). In 1983, the series provided the basis for an animated television adaptation. The characters of Quick and Flupke and their early comic appearances entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026, but they remain under copyright in their home country until 2054 as Hergé died in 1983.