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Natacha

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Johan and Peewit

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Rubine is a tough and sexy female cop based in Chicago who features in the Belgian French bande dessine of the same name. The title was conceived by Walter Walthery, the author (with Gos) of the more famous Natacha, the adventurous air stewardess. Stylistically, the comics are very similar - Rubine even looks a little like a red headed tousle-haired Natacha - but the stories have a very different feel. Natacha, with its roots in the late 1960s, never lost its camp “espionage” aspect, whereas Rubine walks the mean streets of modern Chicago, gun and handcuffs at the ready, to take down murderers, drug dealers and cartels. The series was first published in 1993 and there have been no further new Rubine stories since 2011, although compendiums of her adventures known as Integrales, continue to be published.

The above arrest scene is typical of the series and appears in the story Lake Wakanala by Walthery and de Sano, reprinted in Rubine Integrale #4 (2009).

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Cover of the first comic book of Natacha, the hugely popular air hostess by François Walthery, 1970.  

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Spirou #1647

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Walthery

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Walthery: Natacha

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Natacha by Francois Walthery