Les cœurs simples #[nn]

Presented by Albert Algoud and published by Casterman in 2017, Les cœurs simples is a French-language anthology celebrating — with evident affection — the idiots, simpletons, and mountain bumpkins of comics history. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a charmingly rendered, somewhat bewildered-looking rotund fellow peering out from a warm oval vignette against a cool slate-blue field, radiating the gentle, good-natured absurdity promised by the subtitle "Idiots, simplets, arriérés, crétins des Alpes et d'ailleurs… une anthologie." At 25,00 EUR, this is a wonderfully curated celebration of comics' most endearingly dim characters.