Die Brücke im Nebel #[nn]

A moody bridge looms through the fog behind two figures at the center of Jacques Tardi's cover — a grim-faced man in a heavy overcoat and a dark-haired woman, both rendered in Tardi's characteristically spare, atmospheric line work. This 1996 Edition Moderne release brings Léo Malet's hard-boiled Nestor Burma to German-language readers, with Tardi handling both script adaptation and art. The subdued palette and brooding urban setting perfectly capture the noir atmosphere that made this collaboration between Malet and Tardi so compelling.