Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring #3

The cover of this third chapter in Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's unsettling anthropomorphic series is quietly, deliberately haunting — a cracked family portrait of three bears rests on a mantelpiece alongside a smaller framed photograph, fragments of broken glass scattered at its base. There's something deeply melancholy about that damaged image, the warm, muted palette making the subtle wrongness feel all the more intimate. Horvath's delicate linework and soft washes give the whole scene the texture of a half-remembered photograph, drawing you in before you notice just how uneasy it makes you feel.