Jessica Blandy #22

Part of the long-running Belgian series from writer Jean Dufaux and artist Renaud Denauw, this 2003 installment carries the evocative title "Blue Harmonica." The cover sets a brooding, melancholic mood: a fair-haired figure rests in the foreground, leaning with quiet intensity, while a solitary dark-coated figure stands at a distance on weathered wooden steps beneath a pale, overcast sky. Renaud Denauw's restrained, atmospheric linework gives the whole scene a cool stillness that feels perfectly in tune with the series' noir sensibility.