One Year in America #[nn]

Elisabeth Belliveau's One Year in America announces itself with quiet confidence — a softly painted still life of a tin can bristling with pencils, rulers, and art tools that speaks directly to the creative life at the heart of this 2014 Conundrum Press graphic novel. The muted, watercolor-like palette gives the cover an intimate, almost journal-like warmth, perfectly suited to a story framed around a year spent in America. Belliveau's painted artwork carries a handmade sincerity that feels genuinely personal from the very first glance.