Ett fall för Canardo #8

Sokal's brooding, autumn-toned cover for this 1992 Swedish edition sets a wonderfully moody stage for "Fasans kanal" — the eighth case in the Ett fall för Canardo series. The weary, trenchcoated duck detective Canardo crouches at the edge of a murky canal, surrounded by a crowd of uneasy anthropomorphic characters and one anxious human woman, while bare trees and scattered yellow leaves frame the grim scene overhead. With cover art by Benoît Sokal and interiors written and drawn by the same hand, this Casablanca-published volume promises the noir atmosphere and sharp character work that makes this series such a distinctive corner of European comics.