220 Volts #[nn]

Sylvain Escallon's stark black-and-white artwork immediately sets the tone here — a pale, wide-eyed young woman dominates the foreground while dark conifers and an isolated cabin with a single lit doorway loom behind her, radiating quiet dread. This French graphic novel adapts Joseph Incardona's novel, translated through Escallon's bold, high-contrast linework into something visually arresting. Published by Éditions Sarbacane in 2015, 220 Volts is the kind of atmospheric bande dessinée that draws you in from the first glance.