Aldobrando #[nn]

The cover of Aldobrando, by Critone & Gipi, is a genuinely beautiful piece of work — a lean, gangly young figure sprints across a warm amber landscape, a knife clutched in hand, with a medieval castle silhouetted against a blazing golden sky in the distance. The loose, expressive watercolor style gives the whole image a sun-soaked, fairy-tale urgency that feels both timeless and immediate. Published by Casterman in 2019, this is the kind of graphic novel that draws you in before you've even turned a page.