Les Mauvaises Gens

A single, powerful volume from Delcourt, Les Mauvaises Gens is a graphic novel rooted in the 20th-century history of French labor activism. The work, by Étienne Davodeau, documents the true story of a family and a community involved in the Catholic worker-priest movement and the strikes of the 1950s. It matters as a poignant, human-scale document of social struggle, rendered with the warmth and documentary rigor that distinguishes Davodeau's non-fiction comics.