Pétalas #[nn]

Two small, scarf-wrapped animal characters — one larger with a fluffy tail, one smaller wearing a top hat — stand facing each other across a snowy, frozen landscape as rose petals drift through a soft blue-and-pink twilight sky, making for a cover that feels immediately tender and quietly poetic. Gustavo Borges's linework and Cris Peter's delicate watercolor palette give Petals a storybook warmth that draws you in before you've read a single page. Published by Kingpin Books in 2017, this is the kind of graphic novel that reminds you how much atmosphere a single image can hold.