Vidocq

In the early 1990s, the Dutch publisher Stripwinkel Sjors launched Vidocq, a single-issue comic that adapts the real-life exploits of the legendary 19th-century French criminal-turned-detective Eugène François Vidocq. Created by an uncredited creative team, this standalone graphic novel offers a compact, historically grounded adventure drawn from the founder of the modern police force. Though brief in its run, it stands as a niche European effort to bring a fascinating historical figure to the comics page.