De Ronde van Frankrijk

Book cover of the 1992 compilation by Frans Lodewijckx. The caricatured cyclist in the yellow sweater is Lucien Teisseire.

De Ronde van Frankrijk (The Tour de France) was a Belgian gag cartoon comic strip series by Marc Sleen, in which he made a comedic report of every daily tournament of the annual cycling contest the Tour de France. Sleen drew the strip each year, from 1947 up until 1964, for the Flemish newspapers Het Vrije Volksblad and Het Volk.[1][2]

  1. ^ AUWERA, Fernand, en SMET, Jan, "Marc Sleen", Uitgeverij Edicon/Standaard Uitgeverij, Antwerpen, 1985, page 116-117
  2. ^ "Marc Sleen".