Alone #4

The fourth volume of Gazzotti and Vehlmann's Alone series delivers an immediate jolt of peril right on the cover: a red-jacketed kid clings desperately to a massive yellow-and-black crane block as it swings on a thick rope, holding tight to a smaller, wide-eyed child while scattered red droplets and a pair of glasses tumble through the air around them. Bruno Gazzotti's linework is as energetic and precise as ever, capturing both the physical tension and the vulnerability of children navigating a world without adults. "The Red Cairns" promises another gripping chapter in this imaginative survival series, published by Cinebook in 2015.