Boris Vian

A sharp, surreal biographical comic from Daedalus, launched in 2021, that distills the whirlwind life of the French polymath Boris Vian into three issues. The series—written and drawn by a single, unnamed creator—captures Vian’s overlapping careers as a novelist, jazz critic, engineer, and songwriter, all filtered through the playful, absurdist lens that defined his own work. It matters as a compact, inventive tribute to a figure whose influence on French culture remains vast, rendered with the same irreverent energy he brought to everything he touched.