Les aventures de la Mort et de Lao-Tseu #3

From Fluide Glacial's irreverent stable comes this 2006 Boucq-illustrated volume of Les Aventures de la Mort et Lao-Tseu, subtitled www.la-mort.fr — and the cover says it all: a heavyset pig sits at a desktop computer while Death itself, skeletal and scythe in hand, peers out from the monitor screen on the phone. The gag is perfectly framed against a sun-dappled garden glimpsed through a crumbling window, giving the absurdity a strangely serene backdrop. Boucq's loose, expressive linework makes this collision of mortality and modern technology feel both genuinely funny and oddly poignant.