Trois ombres

In this starkly beautiful graphic novel from Delcourt, Cyril Pedrosa crafts a wordless, haunting fable about a family's desperate flight from three shadowy figures. The story follows a father's impossible choice as he tries to protect his son from an inexorable fate, rendered entirely through Pedrosa's expressive, fluid linework and moody washes of ink. A singular, self-contained work from 2007, Trois ombres remains a powerful testament to the emotional depth possible in silent comics.