Incidents #[nn]

A dapper, pipe-smoking man rendered in bold graphic silhouette — top hat, stern expression, smoke curling into pastel clouds — makes for an immediately striking cover from Gérald Auclin and Daniil Harms, published by The Hoochie Coochie in 2011. The flat, two-tone illustration style, with its teal background and rosy-pink figure looming over a green dresser, gives the whole thing a distinctly playful yet slightly absurdist atmosphere. This is the kind of handsome, design-forward volume that rewards a closer look.