Durango #7

A lone rider in a dark hat and long coat moves through a bleak, snow-covered landscape on horseback, a wolf skulking in the foreground — Yves Swolfs sets a mood of quiet, wintry menace right from the cover of this seventh Durango album. Published in 1987 by Edition des Archers, "Loneville" promises the kind of atmospheric Western storytelling that made this Belgian series stand out from the crowd. Swolfs handles every line himself — writing, drawing, and inking — and his confident draftsmanship gives the frozen frontier scene a stark, cinematic weight.