Les Suites Vénitiennes #3

The third chapter of Warnauts and Raives' atmospheric Venetian saga carries the evocative title Exil, and the cover sets a brooding tone immediately — beneath a shadowy Venetian bridge, a masked figure in a tricorn hat looms behind two other characters, one of whom is being urgently pulled or restrained in the foreground. The moody, sepia-tinged linework captures 18th-century Venice with genuine elegance, all arched colonnades and dark canals whispering of intrigue. Published by Casterman in 1998, this is historical bande dessinée at its most atmospheric.