L'étrange

Jérôme Ruillier’s L’étrange, launched in 2016 by the French publisher L’Agrume, is a single-issue comic that distills a quiet, unsettling atmosphere through its spare, evocative art. Known for his sensitive, minimalist style, Ruillier crafts a wordless or nearly wordless narrative that invites readers to linger on the strange and the familiar. This standalone work matters as a showcase of how a master cartoonist can build an entire world and emotional arc in just a few pages, a testament to the power of visual storytelling.