Nocturno #1

Two young girls — one dark-haired, one blonde — walk together through churning ocean waves beneath a crescent moon, while the sinuous tentacles of a great creature curl around them against a stormy, cloud-streaked sky. Tony Sandoval's cover art for this 2008 Editions Paquet release has an immediately arresting quality, blending tenderness and unease in equal measure. Nocturno announces itself as something genuinely distinctive — a moody, atmospheric work that feels as dreamlike and unsettling as the night itself.