Fantômes #[nn]

Raina Telgemeier's Fantômes — the French-language edition published by Akileos in 2016 — arrives with a cover that immediately sets a wonderfully eerie yet heartfelt tone: two girls, one younger with long dark hair and one older in a red-striped shirt, gaze upward into a swirling, spectral blue sky filled with ghostly wisps. The contrast between the warm, grounded characters and the otherworldly atmosphere overhead makes it clear this is a story where the everyday and the supernatural brush right up against each other.