Published by Coconino Press, Baru's L'arrabbiato (originally in French) is a remarkable comic. It tells a classic, dare I say archetypal, story: the angry kid from the no-hope neighbourhood who wants out, be a boxer and make some cash. In harsh conflict with his father who wants him to study. In mangled friendship with his Arab friend off to university.

What is remarkable is the emotional, the economic-driven intensity captured by the drawings, like Lee Strasberg's method applied to comic art. The anguish and the laughter become pungent punches that hit out from the delicately printed page.

Now awaiting vol.2