R97 - Les hommes à terre #[nn]

From Dupuis' Aire Libre imprint comes this striking 2020 graphic novel by Cailleaux and Giraudeau — R97: Les hommes à terre — whose cover immediately sets a mood of solitary contemplation: a lone figure perches at the prow of a vessel, gazing out over a calm, sun-warmed expanse of sea and sky rendered in soft, painterly tones. The composition balances the hulking mass of the ship's hull against that vast open horizon, suggesting both confinement and longing in a single quiet image. A thoughtful, visually assured work that announces itself as something unhurried and genuinely felt.