Mooie navels #6

Three sun-kissed young women lounge on a beach towel under a bright blue sky, their cartoon expressions perfectly capturing that lazy, sweltering summer vibe — one looks coolly relaxed, another startled, and the third casually absorbed in the moment, a music player and magazine scattered around them. Delaf's clean, expressive artwork gives this sixth volume of Mooie Navels a breezy coastal energy that matches its subtitle, "Een bloedhete zomer" (A Scorching Hot Summer), to a tee. Published by Dupuis in 2014, it's a cheerful slice of Belgian comics comedy that promises exactly the kind of warm-weather fun the cover delivers.