Cahiers Madeleine #3

The third volume of this Aire Libre series delivers a cover that immediately sets the mood: a composed young woman in wartime dress carries a suitcase in front of the Eiffel Tower, while behind her a fedora-hatted figure and a column of armed soldiers loom in the shadows. Bertail's artwork renders the entire scene in a cool, restrained blue palette that feels both elegant and quietly tense. Morvan and Riffaud's series continues to draw on wartime Paris as its backdrop, and this 2021 Dupuis release makes a compelling case for itself before you've even opened the cover.