India Dreams #9

The ninth chapter of Maryse and J.-F. Charles's India Dreams series arrives with a cover that perfectly captures the series' dreamy, atmospheric world — two women, one dark-haired and one fair-haired in a blue dress, share a quiet moment on stone steps, watched over by a perched monkey and a radiant peacock displaying its plumage. J.-F. Charles's painterly artwork bathes the scene in soft, lush greens and muted golds that evoke a colonial-era India filtered through memory and longing. Titled Le Regard du vieux singe ("The Gaze of the Old Monkey"), this 2016 Casterman volume promises another richly illustrated chapter in one of Franco-Belgian comics' most visually poetic ongoing series.