Kessel, la naissance du Lion #[nn]

From Cyrille Charpentier and Jörg Mailliet, this Les Arènes BD album carries one of the most striking covers of 2022: two monumental faces — a veiled woman gazing sidelong from the upper left and a young man rendered in muted desert tones below — frame a distant caravan of camels threading across a sunlit dune. The title La Naissance du Lion ("The Birth of the Lion") promises an origin story steeped in sand, shadow, and human drama. It's a beautifully composed package that makes an immediate, quietly powerful case for the graphic novel as literary art.