La chanson de Renart #2

A roguish fox clutching a playing card faces off with a striking woman in bridal white, her own hand of cards raised as scattered bones, a die, and mysterious bottles hint at games both magical and dangerous. Joann Sfar brings his distinctive, warmly expressive line work to this second volume of La Chanson de Renart, subtitled La Magie sans miracle, published by Gallimard in 2021. The cover alone promises the kind of sly, folkloric charm that makes Sfar's work so hard to put down.