Here's a vigorous and endearing chronicle of adolescence in a working-class town in eastern France, in the middle of the 1960s, told from the inside of a group of childhood friends raised in the long shadow of the local factory. The clash of generations and social classes, girls, music, bars, lack of money but friendship stronger than anything... and then of course in the background, as always with Baru, an acute look and demanding focused on the world, its inequalities and its contradictions. --Amazon FR
I love (and am slightly scared by) the works of "Baru" (Hervé Barulea, France). They're raw, visceral, filled with attitude, and pulse with a certain 'street energy.' Here's an alternate cover for the book above:
Because his communist parents were convinced there was no bread to be earned in drawing, Hervé Baru first became a gym teacher before embarking on a career in comics. In his early thirties, he decided to devote his time to making comics, drawing subject matter from his teenage years in France and his travels in the 1960s. Soon, he proved his parents wrong by becoming a full-time, established comic artist, making his debut in the magazine Pilote in 1982. --Lambiek
And an unrelated poster from a BD festival:
Finally, more info and samples:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/baru.htm
