Titeuf #14

Volume 14 of Zep's beloved French series finds the spiky-haired, big-eared Titeuf towering awkwardly above a dense, colorful crowd of his peers — all rendered in Zep's warmly expressive cartoon style — as the subtitle Bienvenue en adolescence! ("Welcome to Adolescence!") signals a new chapter in his life. The cover image perfectly captures that universal feeling of standing out, slightly bewildered, in the middle of a jostling, chaotic world of kids on the cusp of growing up. Published by Glénat in 2015, this fourteenth album is a great entry point for fans of humor-driven European comics with a big heart.