On me l'a enlevée #[nn]

The cover alone speaks volumes: a small child in a pink outfit clings tightly to an adult figure, seen only from the torso down, in an image that radiates both tenderness and unease. From Springer and Lambour, this 2010 Vents d'Ouest album carries its title — On me l'a enlevée ("She Was Taken from Me") — with quiet emotional weight, letting that single, intimately rendered embrace do the heavy lifting. It's the kind of restrained, human-scale storytelling that French-Belgian graphic literature does so well.