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A wide-eyed man in a bowler hat clutches a telephone receiver to his ear with visible urgency, his other hand gripping the rotary telephone itself — rendered in Tardi's distinctively angular, high-contrast black-and-white linework against a cool grey background. This 1986 Swedish-language album from Medusa brings together the storytelling of Forest and the unmistakable draftsmanship of Jacques Tardi, whose cover work here is tightly composed and quietly unsettling. Fans of European bande dessinée with a noir sensibility will find plenty to appreciate in this collaboration.