Recueil du Journal de Spirou #350

This milestone 350th collection from Dupuis packs weeks of beloved Franco-Belgian comics storytelling — spanning January 25 to March 29, 2017 — into one satisfying volume. The cover sets a wonderfully chaotic tone: three cartoon animal characters (a toucan, a bespectacled mouse, and a wide-eyed bird-like creature with a small hippo companion) find themselves in a sun-dappled forest clearing, each holding a slice of bread while an enormous, comically dense swarm of bees descends upon them from all directions. It's a perfectly charming snapshot of the playful, all-ages humor that has made the Journal de Spirou a cornerstone of European comics for generations.