Pendant que le roi de Prusse faisait la guerre, qui donc lui reprisait ses chaussettes? #[nn]

A thought-provoking French-language album from Dargaud, this 2013 work by Zidrou and Roger poses a quietly provocative question right in its title: while the King of Prussia was off making war, who was darning his socks? The cover gives us a solitary, heavyset figure bundled in a hooded jacket, their expression weary and unreadable — an image that feels more working-class realism than battlefield glory. It's a striking, humanist opening to what promises to be a story told from the margins of history rather than its center.