Filles des Oiseaux #1

Florence Cestac's Filles des Oiseaux arrives from Dargaud with a cover that sets the tone perfectly: a stern figure in black stands at the center of a crowd of identically dressed girls in blue uniforms, all packed tightly together in a group portrait that buzzes with barely contained chaos. The subtitle — "N'oubliez jamais que le Seigneur vous regarde!" ("Never forget that the Lord is watching you!") — promises sharp, irreverent humor about institutional life and the battle of wills between authority and the unruly. Cestac's expressive, rubbery linework gives every face in that crowd its own mischievous personality, making this 2016 album an immediately appealing proposition for fans of French humor comics.