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From Chauzy and Jonquet comes this striking Casterman album whose cover immediately commands attention: a man defiantly raises a sweeping red banner bearing the title — a riff on L'Internationale's call to sweep the old world clean — while scattered papers litter the steps around him and a solitary woman watches from a distance, her back to us. The restrained palette of grey and white makes that bold red flag absolutely blazing, and the composition crackles with the tension of a confrontation — or a reckoning — just on the verge of unfolding. Published in 2006, it's the kind of graphic novel whose cover alone makes you want to turn the page.