La Survie de l'Espèce #[nn]

A sharp-eyed satirical graphic essay from 2012, La Survie de l'Espèce arrives via Futuropolis with a cover that says it all: a rotund, top-hatted capitalist figure brandishes a gun while perched atop a smaller, bewildered character, all set against a backdrop of soaring skyscrapers and a jagged stock-market graph climbing ever upward. Paul Jorion and Grégory Maklès bill this as an "essai dessiné incisif, humoristique et pas complètement désespéré" — an incisive, humorous, and not-entirely-hopeless drawn essay — and the cover's darkly comic energy makes that promise feel entirely credible.