Hiroshima #1

Keiji Nakazawa's deeply personal series about Gen Barrevoets comes to Dutch readers with this first volume, subtitled De Bom — "The Bomb." The cover's stark black-and-white figures, caught mid-motion against a brooding, hazy sky, immediately convey both urgency and dread, with two or three people seemingly thrown or fleeing in a moment of violent upheaval. Nakazawa's bold, high-contrast linework gives the image a raw, arresting power that reflects the weight of the story he lived and set out to tell.