Castro #[nn]

Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel biography of Fidel Castro arrives from Carlsen with a cover rendered in brooding earth tones — a bearded young man stands in profile while a shadowy, commanding figure looms large overhead, arm raised dramatically against a rust-red background. The stark two-figure composition immediately captures a sense of history in the making, the tension between the man and the myth he would become. Kleist handles both writing and art himself, bringing the same confident linework to this 2010 German edition that made him one of biography comics' most compelling voices.