Zandkasteel

In Zandkasteel, Swiss cartoonist Frederik Peeters and writer Hans Pols (alongside Pierre Oscar Lévy) craft a haunting, single-issue graphic novel for Sherpa that unfolds on a seemingly idyllic beach where time begins to warp and decay at an alarming rate. The story follows a group of holidaymakers as they confront the surreal and terrifying consequences of this temporal anomaly, stripping away their humanity with each passing hour. Peeters' expressive, naturalistic art grounds the creeping dread, making this a quietly devastating meditation on mortality and the fragility of life. Originally published in French as Château de Sable, it stands as a stark, self-contained masterpiece of existential horror.