Mattéo #2

Jean-Pierre Gibrat's Mattéo: Second Cycle (1936–1939) draws readers into a richly rendered era of turbulence and idealism, its cover dominated by a young, blue-eyed figure sprawled back with a cigarette in hand, wrapped in a worn plaid scarf and heavy coat — every detail exhaling the weariness and restless spirit of the late 1930s. Gibrat's painterly linework is on full display here, blending muted earth tones with flashes of red that give the portrait an almost cinematic intimacy. Published by Futuropolis in 2020, this second cycle promises to deepen the world of one of European comics' most atmospheric historical narratives.