Winston Churchill

A real-world legend rendered in ink, this comics version of Winston Churchill made his four-color debut in the pages of the beloved Belgian weekly Spirou back in 1959, brought to life by the talented duo of Henri Gillain and Willy Lambil for Dupuis. Emerging in the Silver Age of comics, he's a fascinating figure in the Franco-Belgian tradition — the kind of historical cameo that gives European adventure comics their distinctive flavor and ambition. Over a surprisingly long span stretching all the way to 2018, he's turned up across titles like Dieu n'a pas réponse à tout and Euromania, sharing pages with an extraordinary cast that includes Charles de Gaulle and Adolf Hitler, placing him squarely in the grand sweep of 20th-century history as comics storytellers imagined it. For collectors with a taste for the rich heritage of Dupuis and the unique way Franco-Belgian comics engage with history, this Churchill is a genuinely intriguing thread to pull.