The “dragon” is perched on some clouds rather than flying. And it looks more like a combination possum+lizard+bat. And the layers are a bit odd in that Bard seems to be in a 2D plane while Smaug is in 3D.

Nevertheless, after seeing these French versions of The Hobbit I kind of want to start collecting them. There’s just such a variety of crazy insanity. I wasn’t able to find a similar craziness in the LOTR covers for some reason.