Dans mon Open Space #4

The fourth volume of James's workplace comedy series, Dans mon Open Space, subtitled Variable d'ajustement, finds our beleaguered office worker facing an unexpected visitor: a tall, elegantly dressed figure in a top hat and tails, cane in hand, cutting a surreal contrast against the mundane fluorescent-lit cubicle landscape. The cover perfectly captures the series' dry humor — the suited oddity looms with theatrical flair while the weary office drone sits slumped at his paper-strewn desk, a drooping potted plant the only other witness to the encounter. If you've ever felt that corporate life has its own brand of absurdist theater, this 2012 Dargaud release from the Poisson Pilote imprint makes that feeling delightfully literal.