La Revue Dessinée #10

The winter 2015–2016 edition of La Revue Dessinée arrives with its tenth issue, and the cover sets a fittingly festive, slightly surreal tone: a dapper figure in a dark suit floats upward, champagne glass in hand, as a bottle of wine, a polka-dotted gift box, and a hat drift around him against a pale blue sky. Inside — if the cover lineup is any indication — the reporting is as varied and ambitious as ever, spanning investigations into the Borrel affair, climate change, the TAFTA accord, the Charlie Hebdo attack, and the amusement parks of the 1980s. At 16 EUR, this French-language documentary comics journal continues to make the case that serious journalism and the art of the bande dessinée belong together.