Anthroporama #[nn]

A warmly rendered sepia-toned cover sets the tone perfectly for this 2015 Fluide Glacial release from Diego Aranega — a bespectacled, beetle-nosed everyman strides confidently into frame armed with a movie camera, a butterfly net, and what appears to be a tape recorder, ready to document the quirks of French society. The subtitle La Société Française par l'Exemple promises exactly that: an anthropological field study of everyday French life, rendered with dry wit and affectionate observation. Aranega's loose, expressive linework gives the whole package a vintage naturalist-journal charm that's hard to resist.