La fille de l'ouvre-boîte #[nn]

Rob Davis's La Fille de l'Ouvre-Boîte arrives in French from Warum with a cover that sets an immediately unsettling tone — a skeletal, sun-emblazoned figure slouches in an ornate throne while a composed young woman stands apart, arms crossed, rendered in stark black and white. Davis's linework is precise and wonderfully strange, balancing the macabre and the deadpan in a way that feels both darkly comic and genuinely eerie. At 20 EUR, this 2017 edition is a handsome hardcover introduction to a singular artistic voice.