Red Ultramarine #[nn]

Manuele Fior's Red Ultramarine arrives from Fantagraphics in 2019 as a striking graphic work whose cover immediately signals something atmospheric and charged. Bold fields of deep blue, white, and red divide the composition into thirds — silhouetted figures descend a staircase in the upper panel, a lone figure appears to fall or float in the spare middle band, and abstracted red-and-black forms fill the lower third with a brooding intensity. Fior, handling every visual layer himself — pencils, inks, and color — delivers a cover that feels painterly and genuinely unsettling in the best possible way.