Des bombes et des hommes #[nn]

Among the rubble of what appears to be a war-ravaged cityscape, a cellist plays on with quiet defiance while figures scramble through the devastation around him — a striking image that captures the tension between human endurance and cultural survival. Des bombes et des hommes (Bombs and Men), published by Futuropolis in 2020 with the creative team of Estelle Dumas, Julie Ricossé, and Loïc Godart, pairs its haunting cover scene with a tagline that translates to "When men fight for their survival, their spirit too is starving..." A thoughtful, humane work that uses the language of bande dessinée to ask what nourishes us even in our darkest moments.