Little Nemo #1

A young boy in a brown coat clings to a rope high above a wintry, blue-drenched cityscape, a mysterious sack dangling beside him — Bruno Marchand's cover for this 1994 Casterman album immediately drops you into a world where childhood adventure teeters between wonder and vertigo. Little Nemo: Le Bon Roi (Tome 1) brings the dreamlike spirit of its source material into a richly atmospheric Franco-Belgian package, with Marchand handling art, inking, and color to deliver that gorgeous, cold-night palette all on his own. A confident opening chapter that makes you want to climb right up that rope alongside Nemo.