Stern #3

A young boy clutching a lantern strides through a blizzard in the foreground, while a looming group of rough-hewn frontier figures — armed and weathered — materializes ghostlike from the storm behind him. Frédéric and Julien Maffre's L'Ouest, le Vrai brings a stark, wintry beauty to this third volume of Stern, balancing childhood vulnerability against the hard edges of the Old West. Published by Dargaud in 2019, the cover's blue-white palette alone makes a quiet, confident case for the series' distinctive visual identity.