Les tueurs #[nn]

Jean-Christophe Mazurie's Les Tueurs from Vide Cocagne announces itself with a cover that's as spare and unsettling as a held breath — a lone, loosely drawn figure stands upright while a pair of legs lies horizontal in the background, the whole scene rendered in a bold, graphic palette of red, yellow, black, and white. Mazurie's minimalist line work carries real tension, letting geometry and negative space do the heavy lifting. This 2017 release looks like a striking example of contemporary French-language comics that trusts its audience to lean in.