Bastien Vivès #7

From Bastien Vivès comes this charming and quietly funny take on the beautiful game, published by Delcourt's Shampooing imprint in 2019. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a tangle of blue-clad players piled on top of one another, with one exasperated voice bubble complaining, "Oh, les gars! On avait dit qu'on touchait pas les couilles!" — a line that says everything about the gap between the sport's grandeur and its very human reality. Vivès brings his signature clean linework and dry wit to Le Football, promising a read that's as much about people as it is about the pitch.