Amour austral #[nn]

Jan Bauer's *Amour Austral* presents a striking cover that immediately evokes the vast, sun-baked wilderness of the southern hemisphere — a bearded backpacker in a wide-brimmed hat stands in the foreground, pack on his shoulders, gazing toward a distant figure silhouetted on a rocky ridge against an ochre landscape. The warm, earthy palette and confident linework from Bauer give the scene a quietly epic feel, a lone traveler and an unreachable horizon that hints at distance in more ways than one. Published by Warum in 2016, this French-language graphic novel feels like an invitation to lose yourself in a story of travel, longing, and the desert between two people.