Cercle vicieux

Étienne Lécroart's Cercle vicieux is a long-running, single-issue experiment from French publisher L'Association, launched in 2000. This comic is a conceptual puzzle—a story whose pages can be read in any order, looping back on itself to form a narrative circle. Lécroart's precise, minimalist linework and ingenious structural play make it a celebrated example of the publisher's avant-garde spirit, a quiet landmark in comics formalism.