Purple Heart #4

Set against a sky burning with orange flames, this 2023 Le Lombard release brings the fourth chapter of Warnauts and Raives' Purple Heart to a fever pitch with "Jambalaya Blues." The cover pulls no punches: a sharp-jawed white man dominates the foreground while behind him a Black man in a white suit and hat stands protectively near a young woman, all three figures silhouetted against a fiery backdrop where robed Klan members gather around a flaming cross. It's a striking, tension-laden image that signals a story steeped in the racial fault lines of the American South, rendered with confident draftsmanship by Warnauts and Raives.