Cartooning for Peace #2

A sharp and timely collection from the international Cartooning for Peace initiative, this 2017 Gallimard volume gathers 60 press cartoons under the wryly pointed title Désunion européenne, with a preface by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a suited figure balancing precariously atop a penny-farthing bicycle whose enormous front wheel is emblazoned with the EU's circle of stars — one star dangling loose at the bottom, threatening to fall away. It's a compact, elegant visual metaphor that signals exactly the kind of incisive political wit you'll find throughout these pages.