Les Femmes en Blanc


Les Femmes en Blanc is a Belgian-French comics humor series of 42 album volumes, scripted by Belgian comic writer Raoul Cauvin and drawn by French comic artist Philippe Bercovici. Colours were done by Leonardo. The series debuted in 1981 in the Belgian comic book magazine Spirou and the first volume was released in 1986.
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Synopsis

The setting of the series is a field hospital. The series deals with the troubles of nurses in a humorous and sometimes ironic, sometimes comic fashion.
A series of short stories with a title are illustrated, and usually deal with some foible, with a medical problem or quirk. For example, in volume 29, the story A malin, malin et demi deals with a patient with nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. The nurse helps him to the bathroom and back. The toilet starts to run and the nurse calls a plumber to fix it. He discovers a bottle of booze in the tank, nearly empty. The nurse realizes that the patient is an alcoholic and has been going to the bathroom to drink and arranges to dry him out. The plumber then tells his incredulous wife at dinner.

Characters

Over the albums, several characters appear regularly as the doctor or nurse Nathalie Minet or nurse Lisette.

Albums (Dupuis issues)

  • Les Femmes en blanc
  • Gaze à tous les étages
  • Superpiquées
  • Les jeunes filles opèrent
  • J'étais infirme hier
  • Gai rire à tout prix
  • Pinces, sang, rires
  • Six foies neufs
  • Piquées de grève
  • Machine à coudre
  • Sang dessus dessous
  • Cœur d'artiste chaud
  • En voie de disparition
  • Des corps rompus
  • Avant que le cor ne m'use!
  • Elle met mal l'alèse
  • Le drain sifflera trois fois
  • Opération duo des nonnes
  • L'aorte sauvage
  • Je panse donc je suis
  • Corps de garde
  • Délivrez-nous du mâle
  • Perles rares
  • Si le cœur vous en dit
  • Lésions étrangères
  • Opération en bourse
  • Viscères au poing
  • Invité donneur
  • Au diable la varice
  • Overdose
  • Rentabilité maximum
  • Le chant du panaris
  • Sangsue alitée
  • Lavez, Maria
  • Des lits de fuite
  • Neuf mois de gros stress
  • Un bacille heureux
  • Potes de chambre
  • Baby Boum !
  • Soufflez !
  • Traitement et sale air !
  • La radio de la méduse

Translations

The series has also been published as