Les Portugais #[nn]

Three figures stand along a stretch of railway tracks under a wide, dusty sky — a brooding young man in the foreground, a woman mid-distance, and an older man with a cane further back, the three of them separated yet bound together by those converging rails. The muted, earthy palette and unhurried composition from Afonso and Chico give Les Portugais an immediate sense of quiet melancholy and generational weight. Published by Les Arènes BD in 2022, this is the kind of thoughtful bande dessinée that draws you in slowly and doesn't let go.