Le vieil homme et son chat #8

Against a cheerful magenta backdrop, Nekomaki's charming cover for this eighth volume captures the warm simplicity at the heart of the series: a rotund, bespectacled old man crouches over a plate of food with chopsticks in hand, while above him a plump orange-and-white cat stretches lazily across the top of the frame. The subtitle Dorment sur leurs deux oreilles — "sleeping soundly" — perfectly hints at the cozy, unhurried rhythms shared between this endearing duo. Published by Casterman in 2022, it's a gentle, inviting slice of everyday life that fans of slice-of-life manga will find impossible to resist.