Billy Budd, KGB

In the early 1990s, Catalan Communications published this single-issue prestige comic that reimagines Herman Melville's classic tale through a Cold War lens, with writer/artist François Boucq crafting a darkly satirical vision of a KGB agent named Billy Budd. A standalone graphic novella, it stands as a bold, idiosyncratic piece of European-influenced American comics, showcasing Boucq's distinctive, expressionistic art and his penchant for literary adaptation with a political twist.