Pervers Pépère

Gotlib’s Pervers Pépère, launched in 1986 by J'ai lu, is a single-issue comic that distills the artist-writer’s signature blend of absurdist, transgressive humor into a focused, deadpan portrait of a thoroughly inappropriate family patriarch. With Gotlib handling both script and art, this slim volume stands as a concentrated example of his mature, boundary-pushing style, offering a brief but potent glimpse into the irreverent world he defined for French comics. Its singular, self-contained nature makes it a curious artifact—a one-off that nonetheless echoes the anarchic spirit of his more sprawling works.