Le Jeune Albert #[nn]

Published by Les Humanoïdes Associés in 1985, this charming Franco-Belgian album collects Y. Chaland's adventures of Le Jeune Albert, a roguish young man in a red jacket whose mischievous personality leaps off the cover in four lively vignettes — caught mid-slingshot, absorbed in a stack of books, facing a ghostly figure, and wielding a paintbrush with suspicious enthusiasm. Chaland's clean ligne claire style gives the whole package an irresistible retro warmth, with Albert's portrait at the center reminding you exactly who's in charge of the trouble.