Les Fonctionnaires #13

A delightful slice of bureaucratic absurdity from Bamboo Édition, this 2013 entry in the long-running Les Fonctionnaires series revels in the comic chaos of French administrative life. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a group of laughing office workers crowds around a desk, papers flying, while a smaller inset gag below shows a hapless soul at an Accueil (reception) desk being told — with cheerful indifference — that his file has once again gone missing. Created by Bloz and Béka, Le Bétisier de l'administration promises a collection of the finest blunders and bloopers that only la fonction publique can produce.