Douwe Dabbert #15

This 2018 album from Uitgeverij L brings Dutch comics favorite Douwe Dabbert back in Het bedrog van Balthasar — a title promising trickery and trouble right from the start. The cover, by Thom Roep and Piet Wijn, sets a delightfully chaotic scene: a worried, white-bearded figure lurks behind a crimson curtain in the foreground while, in the background, a green-coated ruffian sends a younger fellow flying through the air amid an elegant interior adorned with fruit and gilded furnishings. It's the kind of lively, warmly illustrated mischief that has kept Douwe Dabbert a beloved fixture of Dutch comics for generations.