L'Homme qui rit #1

This first volume of the 2007 Delcourt adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel L'Homme qui rit opens the story with 'La Mer et la Nuit' (The Sea and the Night). It follows the early, harrowing journey of Gwynplaine, a boy cruelly disfigured into a permanent grin, as he is abandoned by a band of outcasts and finds his way through a stormy, treacherous coastal landscape. The volume sets the stage for the gothic tale of identity, love, and societal cruelty that unfolds in Hugo's original work.