Bernard Lermite

A distinctly French voice from the Bronze Age, Bernard Lermite arrived in 1979 courtesy of creator Martin Veyron and the wonderfully named Editions du Fromage, making his home across the pages of Bernard Lermite and the celebrated French anthology Pilote Mensuel. His catalog footprint may be compact — just six recorded appearances across a run that stretched into the early eighties — but that intimacy is part of the charm, the calling card of a character rooted in the rich tradition of Franco-Belgian comics storytelling. For collectors with a taste for the offbeat and the continental, Bernard Lermite is exactly the kind of hidden gem worth seeking out.