Alois Nebel #[nn]

The striking black-and-yellow cover of this 2012 Voland & Quist edition immediately draws you in with its bold graphic sensibility — a mustachioed railway dispatcher in a peaked uniform cap gazes out steadily against a swirling, abstract background. Writer Jaroslav Rudiš and artist-inker Jaromír 99 bring a distinctly Central European atmosphere to this graphic novel, and Jaromír 99's high-contrast cover art sets the mood perfectly — deliberate, a little haunted, and quietly compelling. If you're drawn to character-driven European comics with a strong visual identity, *Alois Nebel* belongs on your shelf.