Les meilleurs ennemis #2

The second volume of Les Meilleurs Ennemis — Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B.'s graphic history of U.S.–Middle East relations — covers the turbulent years 1953 to 1984, a period dense with coups, conflicts, and shifting alliances. David B.'s striking black-and-white cover sets the tone perfectly: a bald, bearded figure looms in the foreground while a circular vignette above frames a naval warship, an American flag, a suited figure, and a bristling array of weapons and machinery. Published by Futuropolis in 2014, this is sharp, visually inventive nonfiction comics storytelling at its most ambitious.