Herfst in de baai van de Somme #[nn]

This Dutch-language album from Saga Uitgaven opens with a cover that immediately signals something special: a luminous, red-haired woman in flowing white drapery gazes out from within an Art Nouveau–style decorative frame, her expression caught somewhere between wonder and unease, while a weathered sailing ship sits grounded on the tidal flats of the Somme Bay behind her. The pairing of that ornate, Mucha-esque border with the vast, misty estuary stretching to the horizon gives the composition an atmosphere that is at once dreamy and quietly melancholic. Writer Philippe Pelaez and artist-colorist Alexis Chabert — whose delicate linework and soft palette are on full display here — look to have crafted something genuinely atmospheric for readers drawn to historical drama with a lyrical visual sensibility.