Catamount #1

The opening volume of this French Western series announces itself with striking visual confidence — a massive wildcat with piercing amber eyes carries what appears to be a bundled infant in its jaws, while riders on horseback surge through a blazing, ember-filled landscape behind it. Benjamin Blasco-Martinez's cover artwork crackles with firelit tension, setting a raw, frontier mood perfectly suited to a story subtitled La Jeunesse de Catamount — the youth of Catamount. With writing by Albert Bonneau and published by Petit à Petit in 2017, this is a compelling start to what promises to be a wild, untamed Western saga.