Esteban #3

The cover of Esteban #3 — subtitled La Survie — says everything with quiet, chilling economy: a small open boat crowded with bundled figures drifts through an ice-strewn arctic sea, while the massive black fin of an orca cuts the grey water in the foreground, dwarfing the vessel and its passengers. Matthieu Bonhomme's cover art renders this confrontation between human fragility and natural power in cool, muted tones that feel genuinely unsettling. Published by Dupuis in 2009, this third volume promises a story where survival is anything but guaranteed.