Les Années Spoutnik #3

Baru's Les Années Spoutnik reaches its third volume with "Bip Bip !," published by Casterman in 2002. The cover, drawn and inked by Baru himself, sets a wonderfully playful tone: a grinning young cosmonaut in a bright red CCCP spacesuit tumbles weightlessly through a deep blue sky, while the unmistakable silver sphere of Sputnik drifts nearby, antenna extended. It's a charming, warm-spirited image that captures both the wide-eyed wonder of the Space Age and the distinctly human story at the heart of this Franco-Belgian series.