Ariol #1

A small donkey bundled in a bright yellow jacket and red pants trudges through a grey, snow-dusted street while adult figures pass indifferently in the background — it's a perfectly observed childhood moment, that feeling of being small in a big, busy world. Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant launch this Franco-Belgian series with a cover that balances gentle humor and quiet melancholy in equal measure. *Debout!* ("Get Up!") sets the tone for what promises to be a warmly relatable slice of everyday life seen through young Ariol's wide, bespectacled eyes.