Bande d'arrêt d'urgence #[nn]

The stark, minimalist cover of Woodrow Phoenix's *Bande d'arrêt d'urgence* — published by Actes Sud in 2013 — says everything without saying a word: a grey pictogram figure tumbles across the lanes of a black road, framed by dashed white lines, evoking the cold geometry of roadside danger signs. Phoenix's graphic design instincts are on full display here, stripping the imagery down to its most elemental and unsettling form. At 22 EUR, this French-language edition is a striking artifact of comics storytelling that treats the road itself as both stage and threat.