Blackbird #[nn]

Pierre Maurel's Blackbird arrives with a cover that immediately sets its gritty urban tone — a crowd of figures tangled in a tense confrontation along railway tracks beneath an overpass choked with stalled traffic, rendered in stark ink lines against warm kraft-paper tones. The two-color palette of black and red feels purposeful and alive, giving Maurel's loose, energetic linework a raw, street-level urgency. Published by Conundrum Press in 2016, this is a visually striking piece of work that earns a place on any shelf that appreciates bold, distinctive cartooning.