Agrippine #[1]

Claire Bretécher introduces Agrippine, her thoroughly modern French teenager, in this 1988 album from Editions Claire Bretécher. The cover says it all: Agrippine slouches amid a pile of colorful cushions, headphones on and expression magnificently bored, while a companion reads a comic called *Heidegger au Congo* — a half-empty Coke bottle and scattered cassette tapes completing the gloriously cluttered tableau. Bretécher's loose, expressive linework captures the particular exhaustion of adolescence with warmth and wit that made her one of the sharpest voices in Franco-Belgian comics.