Mattéo #5

Jean-Pierre Gibrat's Mattéo reaches its fifth and final arc — Cinquième Époque (Septembre 1936–Janvier 1939) — with a cover that places a young woman front and center, rifle in hand, wearing a military jacket and a red-starred cap against a wintry, mist-softened landscape of bare trees. The image carries the quiet tension that has defined Gibrat's work throughout the series: something resolute in her gaze, something melancholy in the pale, painterly palette. Published by Futuropolis in 2019, this concluding volume promises the same intimate, historically grounded storytelling that has made this Spanish Civil War saga one of Franco-Belgian comics' most absorbing human dramas.