Les sœurs Grémillet #2

The second volume of Les Sœurs Grémillet arrives in 2021 with "Les amours de Cassiopée," and Alessandro Barbucci's cover sets a wonderfully atmospheric tone: the central Grémillet sister, Cassiopée, clutches a letter to her chest with a knowing smile, while her two siblings linger nearby in a moonlit, ivy-draped cemetery — one wary, one perched on a stone with a crow at her fingertips. Glowing will-o'-wisps dot the graves and a luminous white ghost drifts through the gothic archway behind them, giving the whole scene a charm that balances the spooky with the sweetly magical. Di Gregorio and Barbucci clearly have a gift for blending everyday teenage feeling — what's in that letter? — with effortless enchantment.