La Fille du Bourreau

In this French historical comic from Albin Michel, launched in 2002, the story follows the daughter of a public executioner, exploring her life and moral conflicts within a society defined by her father's grim profession. The series is primarily associated with writer and artist François Froideval, whose detailed artwork and somber tone ground the narrative in a richly rendered early modern setting. Though only a single issue has been published, it stands as a distinctive, character-driven meditation on justice, family, and the weight of inherited duty.