Ein Fall für Inspektor Canardo #10

Benoît Sokal's brooding duck detective Inspektor Canardo looms large in the foreground of this 2004 Schreiber & Leser edition, his heavy-lidded scowl set against a sun-baked desert landscape complete with an oil derrick and a lone young woman walking away toward the distant horizon. The stark contrast between Canardo's weary, close-up presence and the vast, arid emptiness stretching behind him sets a quietly melancholic mood that feels distinctly noir. "Hinter dem Horizont" is the tenth case in the series, and Sokal's cover linework promises the same atmospheric blend of dark humor and dusty desolation that makes Canardo such a compelling figure in European comics.