Les Femmes en Blanc #41

Philippe Bercovici's long-running Belgian comedy series returns with Traitement et sale air, and the cover sets the tone perfectly: a hapless, eye-patched nurse wails in exasperation while a patient in a hospital bed gets an uncomfortably close examination from a colleague nearby, all rendered in Bercovici's wonderfully expressive cartooning style. The hospital-room setting — complete with IV drip, medical monitor, and a meal tray — promises the kind of cheerful workplace chaos that has made Les Femmes en Blanc a beloved fixture of the Dupuis catalog. With 41 volumes behind it, this 2019 entry looks like another warm, laugh-filled prescription from one of Franco-Belgian comics' most enduring medical comedies.