| Women in white (Les Femmes en Blanc) | |
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| No. of issues | 42 |
| Page count | 46 pages |
| Publisher | Dupuis |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Raoul Cauvin |
| Colourists | Leonardo |
| Editors | Philippe Bercovici |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Spirou |
| Issues | No. 2240 |
Les Femmes en Blanc (Women in white) is a Belgian comics humor series of 42 album volumes,[1] for which the script was created by Raoul Cauvin and whose design was directed by 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.
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.[2]
Over the albums (whose titles contain puns), several characters appear regularly as the doctor or nurse Nathalie Minet or nurse Lisette.
The series has also been published as