Le long des ruines #[nn]

From Jérémy Perrodeau and Editions 2024 comes this striking 2020 French-language graphic novel, whose cover alone signals something genuinely special: two small figures in coral-red suits wade through a dark, flooded landscape of jagged rocky formations, dwarfed by an enormous, serene disembodied head with long flowing hair rising from the water like a sunken monument. The deep teal palette and the quiet surrealism of that vast floating face set a mood that is both melancholy and dreamlike, hinting at a world where ruins are more than rubble. Le long des ruines looks like the kind of contemplative, visually inventive work that rewards slow, careful reading.