Les Petits riens de Lewis Trondheim #4

The fourth volume of Lewis Trondheim's autobiographical Les Petits riens series arrives in 2009 with "Mon ombre au loin," and the cover sets a breezy, self-deprecating tone: a cartoonish figure in green ski gear carves down a snowy alpine slope, goggles on and poles in hand, mountains rising in soft purples and blues behind them. Trondheim handles every aspect of the book himself — writing, drawing, inking, coloring, and lettering — and that singular personal voice is already apparent in the cover's loose, warm linework. Fans of his diary comics will find this slice-of-life installment an appealing continuation of one of French comics' most endearing ongoing series.