Les collègues #[nn]

The everyday absurdities of office life get a wonderfully dry spotlight in this volume from Patrice Guillon's Les Collègues. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a lone office worker sits at his computer, looking pleasantly perplexed as he muses aloud, "Aujourd'hui, je suis bien. Ni stressé, ni flippé… C'est louche!" — that rare, suspicious calm of a workplace day going suspiciously well. Published in 2012 by La Boîte à Bulles, La pause-boulot promises the kind of gentle, knowing humor that anyone who has ever survived a Monday will immediately recognize.