L'empoisonneuse

In this quietly powerful historical graphic novel from Actes Sud, Peer Meter and Barbara Yelin adapt the true story of a 19th-century Dutch woman tried for serial poisoning, exploring the blurred lines between guilt, circumstance, and societal judgment. With Yelin’s expressive, watercolor-infused art and Meter’s restrained, empathetic storytelling, the single-issue comic reframes a notorious case as a meditation on class, gender, and the unreliability of collective memory.