Au passage du pourquoi-pas #[nn]

From Stanislas and Baraou, this L'Association release announces itself with a wonderfully vivid orange cover that practically hums with street-life energy. A wonderfully varied cast of characters strolls, struts, and saunters across the image — among them a mystery-coated figure with briefcase, a cowboy, a glamorous woman in a strapless dress and thigh-highs, an elderly lady with a shopping bag, a musician, a curiously animal-headed wanderer, and several others, each going their own way yet somehow sharing the same animated world. It's the kind of ensemble that promises a richly human, slice-of-life story full of personality — very much in the spirit of what L'Association was doing so well in 2001.