Le Choix #[nn]

Published by Steinkis in 2020, Le Choix is a French-language graphic novel from Désirée et Alain Frappier that announces its emotional weight right from the cover. A lone, silhouetted figure sits submerged to the shoulders in a bathtub, rendered in stark black against a bold yellow background — a quietly unsettling image that speaks of solitude, vulnerability, and a moment suspended in time. The restrained palette and spare composition make it one of the more arresting covers to come out of the French bande dessinée scene that year.