Les Jours Heureux

In Les Jours Heureux, a two-issue series from Le Lombard (2015–2016), cartoonist and writer Christian de Metter crafts a starkly beautiful graphic novel about a reclusive painter whose isolated life is upended by a mysterious visitor. Set against the haunting landscapes of the Belgian coast, this mature, introspective work explores memory, art, and the quiet weight of the past. De Metter’s signature watercolor style—at once luminous and melancholic—makes this a visually arresting meditation on how we shape, and are shaped by, the stories we tell ourselves.