Beautiful Darkness

A darkly enchanting fable from Drawn & Quarterly, Beautiful Darkness (2014–present) reimagines the classic fairy-tale world as a savage, survivalist nightmare. Written by Fabien Vehlmann and Marie Pommepuy, with hauntingly delicate watercolor art by Kerascoët, the story follows a tiny princess and her court of miniature beings as they are violently displaced into a decaying human corpse. This single-issue graphic novel subverts innocence with ruthless ecological horror, earning its place as a modern masterpiece of the fantastical grotesque.