Les Poissart #1

The first volume of Tronchet's Les Poissart arrives with a cover that sets the tone perfectly: a gap-toothed, red-suited figure clutches a four-leaf clover with an optimistic grin, blissfully unaware — or perhaps fully aware — that luck may be in short supply. Behind him, a ramshackle caravan and a couple of dejected-looking figures survey a landscape strewn with debris, painting a wonderfully tragicomic picture of family life on the margins. Subtitled Au bonheur des drames, this 2011 Glénat release promises the kind of warm, wry humor that finds comedy in life's relentless misfortunes.