Une enquête de l'inspecteur Canardo #12

A dark-haired woman looms menacingly close to Inspecteur Canardo — the rumpled, cigarette-smoking duck detective — on Benoît Sokal's cover for this twelfth entry in the long-running French series. The deep reds and shadowy palette set a distinctly noir mood that suits the unsettling title, La nurse aux mains sanglantes ("The Nurse with Bloody Hands"). Sokal's expressive anthropomorphic art is at its brooding best here, making this 2002 Casterman album a compelling addition to any fan of European detective comics.