Brocéliande, Forêt du Petit Peuple #7

The seventh volume of Jarry and Gomes's enchanting Brocéliande — Forêt du Petit Peuple series brings us "Le Hêtre du voyageur," and the cover alone makes a quietly magical case for the whole series. A cluster of small, white-bodied forest spirits — their faces carved-wood masks painted with red markings, their ears pointed and hair wild and auburn — gather at the mossy roots of a magnificent beech tree, while more of their kin can be spotted perched among its sprawling branches above. Gomes renders the legendary Breton forest in soft, luminous greens and golden shafts of light that give the whole scene a genuinely dreamlike warmth, perfectly suited to Soleil Celtic's Contes de Bretagne imprint.