Marco & Co #2

The cover of this 2021 Gallimard release sets a wonderfully comic scene: a lively art class in full swing, with several students at their easels surrounding an elderly woman posing as the model in a chair — while a wide-eyed young figure stands in the doorway, visibly mortified. Olivier Jourray and Sylvain Bec bring a warm, slice-of-life energy to Marco & Co with this second volume, subtitled On choisit pas sa famille — "You don't choose your family" — a title that says it all. A charming, relatable read for anyone who's ever wished the ground would swallow them whole at a family gathering.