Cities of the Fantastic: The Invisible Frontier #1

François Schuiten's cover sets the mood perfectly: a red-haired figure in a suit pores over large blueprints or schematics, a small shaggy dog at their side, while an overwhelmingly vast curved building — its facade a repeating grid of hundreds of windows — looms behind them like a second horizon. That tension between the lone human figure and the monumental architecture captures everything wonderful about the *Cities of the Fantastic* series. Volume 1 of *The Invisible Frontier* is a handsome 2002 NBM hardcover that showcases Schuiten's meticulous linework at its most architecturally awe-inspiring.