Grandville #[2]

Bryan Talbot's Grandville Mon Amour is a "scientific-romance thriller" featuring Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard — and this striking cover, rendered in bold black, white, and deep crimson, sets the mood perfectly. A broad-shouldered badger in a long coat and bowler hat stands opposite a poised, armed feline figure, while shadowy monstrous shapes loom ominously in the background. Published by Jonathan Cape in 2010, this hardcover graphic novel promises exactly the atmospheric, anthropomorphic noir adventure its Art Nouveau-influenced design so elegantly telegraphs.