Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics. They have a common history for comics (see Franco-Belgian comics) and magazines.

In the early years of its history, magazines had a large place on the comics market and were often the only place where comics were published. Most of them where kids-targetted.

In the 1970s, satirical and more adult begun to appear. In the 1990s, there was a large palet of comics magazine. In the late 1990S, some notable comics have disappared and only a few remains.

Famous magazines

• A suivre
• Bravo
• Le Canard Sauvage
• Charlie Hebdo
• L'Écho des Savannes
• Hara-Kiri
• Heroïc Albums
• Métal Hurlant
• Petits Belges , a magazine consisting largely of text with few illustrations, whose publication started in the 1920s
• Le Petit Vingtième
• Pilote
• Spirou
• Tintin
• Vaillant
• Vécu