Les Épines du Christ #1

Three figures dominate Arnaud Floc'h's painted cover — a bandaged child, a younger boy with a red cross marked on his forehead, and a tall adult man — set against a smoldering, fiery red backdrop that radiates tension and urgency. Published by Éditions Carabas in 2008, this first part of Les Épines du Christ signals a serious, humanist work rooted in conflict and its cost on ordinary lives. Floc'h's raw, expressive brushwork gives the image an immediacy that draws you in before you've even turned a page.