L'almanach #[nn]

Published by Dupuis in 2019, this atmospheric album from J.C. Servais presents a cover that immediately draws you into something unsettling and folk-dark: a bare-shouldered young woman with long dark hair carefully drives a nail into a cloth doll marked with stitched symbols, while in the blood-red background a horned, trident-bearing figure looms beneath gnarled trees. Rendered in Servais's signature blend of earthy linework and warm washes, the image balances intimacy and dread in equal measure — a woman absorbed in a ritual, something ancient and threatening watching from the shadows. L'Almanach promises the kind of quietly haunting, folkloric storytelling that has long made Servais one of Belgian comics' most distinctive voices.