Tourista #[nn]

Claire Bretécher's Tourista, published by Dargaud in 2007, brings her sharp comic sensibility to the absurdities of travel and tourism. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a wide-eyed, bewildered tourist looks on as a local figure carries an enormous, unwieldy bundle of straw that dwarfs everything around them — a quietly hilarious snapshot of cultural collision. Bretécher's loose, expressive line work gives the scene an effortless warmth that makes you want to dive straight in.