Les frustrés #1

Claire Brétecher's sharp-eyed wit is on full display in this 1978 collection, Les Frustrés et le Bolot Occidental. The cover sets a perfectly languid tone — a loosely sketched figure draped across a sofa in studied nonchalance, while an orange, grumpy-looking creature sulks on the floor below. It's a wonderfully economical image that captures the weary, self-absorbed energy Brétecher brings to her affectionate skewering of French bourgeois life.