Monsieur Jean

In this slim, ongoing series from Reprodukt, Charles Berberian, Martin Budde, and Philippe Dupuy reunite to revisit the beloved French everyman character Monsieur Jean, whose quiet, humorous adventures in love, work, and urban life first charmed readers in the 1980s. With Dupuy and Berberian sharing both writing and art duties, the 2011–present run offers a warm, slice-of-life portrait of a writer navigating middle age in contemporary Paris. It matters as a gentle, thoughtful continuation of a celebrated European comics tradition, capturing the bittersweet rhythms of ordinary existence with understated wit and affection.