Albin et Zélie #[nn]

A young dark-haired girl leans curiously toward a pale, round-faced creature emerging from the ground amid swirling, mushroom-like plants — while above the rain-soaked city skyline, strange rocky shapes drift through a stormy sky. Yannick Marchat's cover for this 2012 La Boîte à Bulles release sets a wonderfully eerie yet tender mood, balancing the otherworldly with the quietly human. It's the kind of image that promises an imaginative story hovering right at the edge between the everyday and the fantastical.