La Belle Image #[nn]

Adapted from Marcel Aymé's novel, this Futuropolis album brings a quietly unsettling moment to life on its cover: a well-dressed young man stares, wide-eyed and startled, at his own reflection — or perhaps at a stranger who shares his face — rendered in Cyril Bonin's delicate, muted palette of sage greens and warm ochres. The mirrored composition immediately suggests themes of identity and duality, drawing you in before you've turned a single page. A thoughtful, elegant production from 2011 that fans of literary French bande dessinée will find genuinely rewarding.