Le Caravage #2

Milo Manara's painted cover for this 2018 Glénat volume sets a quietly breathtaking tone: a dark-haired man kneels on a shoreline, arms open wide, his gaze lifted toward a luminous, ethereal female figure floating above him in a golden haze. The contrast between his earthbound posture and her otherworldly radiance perfectly captures the subtitle La Grâce — grace in every sense of the word. With Manara both writing and illustrating the complete volume alongside colorists Simona Manara and writer Aurore Schmid, this second chapter of the Caravaggio biography promises the same lush draftsmanship that made the series impossible to put down.