Les Aventures de Sarkozix #4

The fourth installment of this sharp French political satire from Lupano, Bazile, and Maffre delivers La Gaule de l'Emploi — a timely comic riff on employment anxiety set in an Asterix-flavored Gaul. The cover says it all: a crowd of villagers hoists a banner reading "Sauvez nos emplois" while the diminutive, cape-wearing Sarkozix brandishes his own sign — "Sauvez le mien d'abord" — capturing the strip's irreverent wit in a single image. Published by Delcourt in 2012, this volume finds the series firing on all cylinders with its affectionate but pointed lampoon of political self-interest.