Le Fond du bocal #2

Three rosy-red goldfish crowd around a small pile of sea salt in their fishbowl, peering at it with unmistakable longing — the cover tagline reads "Sniffe, c'est du Guérande… si avec ça tu vas pas la mer !" ("Sniff, it's Guérande sea salt… if that doesn't make you smell the ocean!"). It's a wonderfully absurd little joke, perfectly pitched for the gentle, slice-of-fishbowl-life humor that Le Fond du Bocal delivers. Poupon's warm, rounded artwork makes this second volume from Glénat (2009) an instantly charming pick for fans of Franco-Belgian humor comics.