Une enquête de l'inspecteur Canardo #20

Benoît Sokal's long-running noir series reaches its twentieth installment with "Une bavure bien baveuse," and the cover sets the mood perfectly: the duck detective Canardo slouches at a table, playing cards in hand and a cocktail nearby, while a sleek, dark-haired woman looms behind him with cigarette smoke curling through the air. Sokal's cover art captures that signature blend of world-weary atmosphere and anthropomorphic cool that has made Canardo a standout of Franco-Belgian crime comics since the series began.