Les plus belles histoires de Pilote #4

This 2015 Dargaud collection celebrating Pilote magazine's finest stories from the 1980s opens with a striking cover: a masterfully rendered caricature of a heavy-jowled, world-weary male face filling the frame against a tricolor red, white, and blue background — bold, slightly unsettling, and unmistakably French in its satirical spirit. It's a fitting visual declaration for a volume devoted to an era when Pilote was pushing the boundaries of what Franco-Belgian comics could be. A wonderful gateway into one of the richest decades in the magazine's storied history.