La Revue Dessinée #3

The third issue of La Revue Dessinée — France's ambitious quarterly of comics journalism — arrives in spring 2014 packed with investigative reportages and documentaries in bande dessinée form. The striking cover, rendered in a painterly, almost dreamlike style, depicts a pale-faced figure alongside a horse, with the issue's diverse contents telegraphed across the design: Syria's UN deadlock, precarious life in Berlin, an ecological battle against flies, and a historical autopsy of the guillotine spanning 1792–1981. It's a richly varied dispatch that confirms this young magazine's serious ambition to marry rigorous journalism with the expressive power of comics.