Drôles d'oisifs ou le dernier des La Houpe #[nn]

From L'Écho des Savanes Albin Michel comes this French bande dessinée by Jean-Claude Denis, whose cover sets a wonderfully absurd domestic scene: a relaxed, robed figure lounges in an armchair while a maid, a peculiar long-snouted creature, and a masked figure in fishnet stockings crowd the elegantly disheveled room around him. The blend of languid bourgeois comfort and bizarre company promises the kind of dry, offbeat humor that French comics of 1995 did so well.