L'ankou #[nn]

Drawn from Breton folklore, this Albin Michel album brings the Ankou — the legendary Celtic personification of death — to vivid life in writer Dieter and illustrator Heurteau's Voyage au Pays des Morts. The cover sets an immediately arresting tone: a towering, scythe-bearing silhouette looms against a stormy, lightning-split sky, while a dark bird of prey hovers in the turbulent air below. Heurteau's atmospheric palette of cool greys and blues gives the whole image a haunting, mythic weight perfectly suited to this 2004 journey into the land of the dead.