Les Noyés #[nn]

Nabiel Kanan's Les Noyés arrives in 2006 from La Boîte à Bulles with a cover that immediately sets a brooding, melancholy tone — a suited man cradles a limp, seemingly unconscious woman against a moonlit cityscape of Gothic spires rising from dark, flooded waters. The cool blue palette and stark graphic style give the image a dream-like weight, somewhere between noir and elegy. A quietly compelling work that announces itself with real visual confidence.