Une vie de famille agréable #[nn]

Three grotesque, oddly endearing heads — rendered in bold blue, red, and magenta against a dizzying yellow-and-black hazard-stripe background — stare out from Antoine Marchalot's cover for this French album from Les Requins Marteaux. The deliberately unsettling character design, with its drooping features and flattened forms, gives Une vie de famille agréable a darkly comic personality that feels wholly its own. If you're drawn to offbeat Franco-Belgian publishing and art that gleefully refuses to play it safe, this 2014 release deserves a spot on your shelf.