C'est pour ça que je m'appelle Giovanni #[nn]

Two figures — a broad-shouldered young man in a green polo and a small boy with a backpack — stand together in a narrow, shadow-draped alleyway that feels lived-in and quietly tense. Published by Dargaud in 2011, this Franco-Belgian album wears its intimate, street-level humanity right on its cover, rendered in a restrained palette that lets the body language speak volumes. If you're drawn to stories that feel grounded in real neighborhoods and real relationships, *C'est pour ça que je m'appelle Giovanni* deserves a place on your shelf.