Chroniques absurdes #1

Miguelanxo Prado's Chroniques Absurdes arrives with a cover that sets the tone perfectly: a hapless figure is completely overwhelmed by a chaotic swarm of dogs of every shape and size, all rendered in Prado's wonderfully expressive style against a quietly ordinary urban park backdrop. The contrast between the mundane setting and the gloriously unhinged scene captures exactly the "monde délirant" — delirious world — promised by the subtitle. Published by Dupuis in 2004 under their Expresso imprint, this first tome looks like a genuinely entertaining dive into the absurd.