KiloMètre Zéro #3

A lone figure in a top hat and overcoat sits wearily on a felled log, cane in hand, while smokestacks billow dark clouds over a grim industrial landscape behind him — it's a quietly haunting image that sets the tone for Un Monde Nouveau ("A New World"), the third volume in Piatzszek and Bossard's series. The contrast between the bare, uprooted tree in the foreground and the crowded, smoke-choked factories stretching into the distance speaks to a world in the midst of painful transformation. Published by Grand Angle/Bamboo Édition in 2022, KiloMètre Zéro continues to prove itself one of the more visually atmospheric French-language series exploring the human cost of industrialization.