Les carnets de Joann Sfar #12

Joann Sfar's sketchbook series continues with this 2016 entry from Marabout, titled Si j'étais une femme je m'épouserais — a characteristically self-aware and charming title. The cover illustration, rendered in Sfar's fluid, ink-wash style, presents a relaxed young woman lost in thought alongside a small, rounded figure at her feet, capturing the intimate and whimsical mood that makes these Carnets so appealing. Fans of Sfar's personal, freewheeling graphic diary work will find this twelfth volume a warm continuation of one of French comics' most distinctively confessional ongoing projects.