Une enquête de l'inspecteur Canardo #8

From Benoît Sokal — the sole creative force behind every line of this album — comes the eighth case for the trench-coated duck detective Inspecteur Canardo: Le canal de l'angoisse. The cover sets an unsettling tone, showing Canardo and a distressed human woman crouched together in what appears to be a ditch or canal bank, surrounded by a crowd of grotesque anthropomorphic figures — a rabbit, a horse, a pig, and other half-human creatures looming ominously from the grey, leafless background. Published by Casterman in 1994, this installment delivers Sokal's signature blend of noir atmosphere and darkly comic Franco-Belgian storytelling in one moody, atmospheric package.