Les Femmes en Blanc #39

The maternity ward has never looked this chaotic — Philippe Bercovici's cover for this 2017 Dupuis volume drops us into a hospital room where two nurses in scrubs look on in wide-eyed alarm as a hapless doctor lies sprawled on the floor amid scattered confetti and debris, with a newborn nearby and a cheerful cat poster watching serenely from the wall. "Baby boum !" sets the tone perfectly for this long-running Franco-Belgian comedy series, balancing the warmth of new arrivals with the gloriously frantic energy of overworked medical staff. Fans of hospital humor will find Bercovici's expressive, rubber-limbed cartooning as lively and fun as ever in this thirty-ninth installment.