Bretécher

Claire Bretécher’s eponymous series, launched in 2006 by Dargaud, collects the celebrated French cartoonist’s sharp, satirical one-page strips and short stories originally published in Le Nouvel Observateur. Spanning eight issues, this collection showcases Bretécher’s signature observational humor, skewering contemporary social mores, intellectual pretensions, and everyday neuroses with her clean, expressive linework. As the work of one of the most influential female voices in European comics, Bretécher matters for preserving the biting wit and cultural commentary that defined her decades-long career.