Le Chat du Rabbin

Joann Sfar’s Le Chat du Rabbin, published by Dargaud from 2002 onward, follows a sharp-tongued, philosophical cat who gains the power of speech after devouring the family parrot. Set in early 20th-century Algiers, the series explores Jewish identity, faith, and storytelling through the feline narrator’s witty observations and his master’s spiritual quandaries. Sfar, serving as both writer and artist, brings a warm, watercolor style to this acclaimed, long-running meditation on tradition and modernity.