Georges et Louis #6

This 2006 Fluide Glacial entry in Daniel Goossens' Georges et Louis series puts the duo's comedic tension front and center — quite literally on the phone. The cover depicts a weary, exasperated older man hunched over a classic telephone receiver on one side of a glass partition, while a stocky younger fellow in a red jacket clutches his own handset on the other, a speech bubble suggesting the conversation is already going sideways. Goossens' wonderfully expressive, rubbery caricature style is on full display, promising the deadpan absurdist humor that makes this long-running French-language series such a treat.