Les Femmes en Blanc
Encyclopedia
Les Femmes en blanc is a Belgian comics
humor series of 32 volumes, for which the script was created by Raoul Cauvin
and whose design was directed by Philippe Bercovici
. Colours were done by Leonardo. The first volume was released in 1986.
. 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.
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
humor series of 32 volumes, for which the script was created by Raoul Cauvin
Raoul Cauvin
Raoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.-Biography:Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there no jobs available for lithographers...
and whose design was directed by Philippe Bercovici
Philippe Bercovici
Philippe Bercovici is a French comics artist of Franco-Belgian comics. Having illustrated a wide range of series, Bercovici is perhaps most known for Les Femmes en Blanc written by Cauvin, started in 1981...
. Colours were done by Leonardo. The first volume was released in 1986.
Synopsis
The setting of the series is a field hospitalField hospital
A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities...
. 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 volumes (whose titles contain puns), several characters appear regularly as the doctor or nurse Nathalie Minet or nurse Lisette.Albums (Dupuis issues)
- Les Femmes en blanc (Women in White) (1986)
- Gaze à tous les étages (Gaze at all floors) ( 1987 )
- Superpiquées (Super nosedives) ( 1987 )
- Les jeunes filles opèrent (Girls operate) ( 1988 )
- J'étais infirme hier (I was crippled yesterday) ( 1989 )
- Gai rire à tout prix (Gay laugh at all costs) ( 1989 )
- Pinces, sang, rires (Pliers, blood, laughter) ( 1990 )
- Six foies neufs (Six new livers) ( 1991 )
- Piquées de grève (Dotted strike) ( 1992 )
- Machine à coudre (Sewing Machine) ( 1992 )
- Sang dessus dessous (Blood-turvy) ( 1993 )
- Cœur d'artiste chaud (Heart of the hot artist) ( 1994 )
- En voie de disparition (Endangered) ( 1995 )
- Des corps rompus (Broken Bodies) ( 1996 )
- Avant que le cor ne m'use! (Before the horn does not wear out!) ( 1996 )
- Elle met mal l'alèse (She puts the wrong mattress) ( 1997 )
- Le drain sifflera trois fois (High Noon) ( 1998 )
- Opération duo des nonnes (Operation two nuns) ( 1998 )
- L'aorte sauvage (The Wild aorta) ( 1999 )
- Je panse donc je suis (I'm dressed so I) ( 2000 )
- Corps de garde (Body Guard) ( 2000 )
- Délivrez-nous du mâle (Deliver us from men) ( 2001 )
- Perles rares (Rare Pearls) ( 2002 )
- Si le cœur vous en dit (If your heart says) ( 2003 )
- Lésions étrangères (Foreign Lesions) ( 2004 )
- Opération en bourse (Operation stock exchange) ( 2005 )
- Viscères au poing (Viscera in hand) ( 2005 )
- Invité donneur (Guest donor) ( 2006 )
- Au diable la varice (To hell with the varicose) ( 2007 )
- Overdose (Overdose) ( 2008 )
- Rentabilité maximum (Maximum profitability) ( 2009 )
- Le chant du panaris (The Song of paronychiaParonychiaThe nail disease paronychia , commonly misidentified as a synonym for whitlow or felon, is an often-tender bacterial or fungal hand infection or foot infection where the nail and skin meet at the side or the base of a finger or toenail...
) ( 2010 )
Translations
The series has also been published as- Mujeres de blanco (Spanish)
- Vrouwen in 't Wit (Dutch)