Blanche #1

From Delcourt's 2009 French-language line comes this quietly arresting opening volume of Blanche, subtitled L'Île de Solitude. Thierry Chavant's cover sets the tone beautifully: a young woman in a flowing white gown sits alone on a dramatic coastal cliff edge, seagulls drifting around her as a tall ship sails in the distant grey-green sea below. The atmosphere — melancholy, elegant, and steeped in period romance — promises a story as sweeping and solitary as the ocean horizon itself.