Raymond Calbuth #7

The seventh installment of Tronchet's beloved French comedy series finds the pipe-smoking, bespectacled Raymond Calbuth peering out from his apartment balcony — striped pajamas, potted plants, and all — onto a sweeping, sun-baked landscape that looks anything but local. The cover perfectly captures the series' enduring charm: an ordinary, slightly bewildered everyman confronting a world that seems hilariously out of scale with his modest domestic routine. Glénat's 2001 edition promises another round of Tronchet's warmly observed, gently absurdist humor.