Les Éphémères #1

Jeff Lemire brings his distinctive ink-and-watercolor sensibility to this French-language first volume, published by Futuropolis in 2023. The cover sets a quietly unsettling tone: a lone rural house sits beneath a pale, washed-out sky while a strange insect-headed figure rises upward into a swarm of dark, scattered forms — suggesting something between wonder and dread. It's an immediately arresting image that captures the melancholic, off-kilter atmosphere Lemire does so well.