Achille Talon #15

A smiling gorilla takes center stage on Greg's cover, cheerfully dangling a bemused Achille Talon and another character like oversized puppets while a cast of familiar faces crowds the foreground — one clutching a palette and paintbrush, another a revolver. Published by Dargaud in 1976, this fifteenth album promises the warm, absurdist humor the series does so well, with its "optimistic quadrumanous" subtitle hinting at a primate companion whose sunny disposition may be the source of all the chaos. Greg's loose, expressive linework gives the whole scene an irresistible sense of good-natured mayhem.