Duke #1

A weathered gunfighter stands alone against a vast twilight sky in this striking opener from Hermann and Yves H., published by Le Lombard in 2017. The cover — rendered entirely by Hermann — sets a brooding Western mood: a silver-haired man in a white hat and dusty coat, pistol at his side, surveys a frontier town with quiet, hard-won authority. "Modder en bloed" (Mud and Blood) promises exactly the kind of gritty, atmospheric Western storytelling that Hermann's painterly linework delivers so compellingly.