Désintégration - Journal d'un conseiller à Matignon #[nn]

The cover of this Éditions Delcourt volume sets the tone beautifully: the grand Hôtel de Matignon — the French Prime Minister's residence — is rendered in warm sepia tones above, a tricolor flag catching the breeze over small figures crossing its courtyard, while below, a lone figure hunches over a desk piled with papers in stark, shadowy black and white. Matthieu Angotti and Romain Authier frame this 2017 work as Journal d'un conseiller à Matignon — the diary of an advisor at the heart of French executive power — and that visual contrast between the imposing institution and the solitary, document-buried individual quietly says everything about life inside the machine. A compelling political bande dessinée for anyone drawn to the human texture of power.