Pin-up #5

Volume five of Yann and Philippe Berthet's Pin-Up arrives with a cover that's pure Cold War glamour — a confident, red-haired woman in black lace lingerie and stockings poses against a striking crimson background bearing the Soviet hammer-and-sickle symbol, her expression cool and knowing. Berthet's linework is as polished as ever, rendering every detail with a sleek, illustrative precision that gives the series its distinctive retro-noir atmosphere. Published by Salleck in 2000, this is a handsome addition to one of Franco-Belgian comics' most stylishly charged series.