Munch avant Munch #[nn]

A young man in a dark overcoat stands at the center of a bustling, finely dressed crowd, his expression quietly intense against the swirl of top hats and Victorian-era finery surrounding him — a striking image of solitude amid society. Giorgia Marras brings a muted, atmospheric palette to this Steinkis graphic biography, tracing the formative years of Edvard Munch before he became the artist the world would come to know. Published in 2016, it's an intimate and carefully rendered portrait of an artist finding himself in a world that doesn't quite fit.