Carpe Diem - Amour, spleen et tatouage #[nn]

From Fluide Glacial, Timothée Ostermann's Carpe Diem — Amour, spleen & tatouage announces itself with a cover that reads like a living flash sheet: a massive red heart, cracked and bleeding, bears a small forlorn figure at its center, surrounded by an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid, a swallow clutching a key, a skull and crossbones, crossed swords, a serpent, arrows, flames, and a pair of dice — classic tattoo imagery assembled into something surprisingly tender. The whole composition captures the book's premise right there on the cover: love, melancholy, and the art of tattooing tangled together in equal measure. Published by Audie in 2019, this is the kind of French bande dessinée that wears its heart — quite literally — on its sleeve.