Face cachée #1

From Futuropolis comes the first part of Face Cachée, a French graphic novel by Sylvain Runberg and Olivier Martin that carries an atmosphere of quiet unease from its very first page. The cover sets the tone beautifully: a lone man in a business suit strides purposefully down a busy city street, briefcase in hand, surrounded by an indistinct crowd rendered in muted sepia-green tones that give the urban scene a dreamlike, slightly unsettling quality. With its understated palette and that solitary figure lost amid the anonymous throng, this 2010 Futuropolis release promises a story rooted in the tension between public faces and private truths.