Dixie Road

In the late 1990s, Dargaud published this four-issue series, a taut crime saga from writer Jean Dufaux and artist Hugues Labiano. Set on a dusty American highway, it follows a man on a desperate journey, his past catching up with him at every mile marker. Labiano's gritty, expressive art brings the heat and tension of the road to life, while Dufaux weaves a hard-boiled narrative of betrayal and survival. A compact, atmospheric thriller that stands as a potent example of the European bande dessinée's embrace of American noir.