L'Echangeur #[nn]

Marc Vlieger's L'Échangeur opens with a quietly arresting image: a lone figure sits perched on a concrete ledge high above a vast, curving highway interchange, dwarfed by the sprawling infrastructure below. Published by Delcourt in 2003 under the Ancrages imprint, this French graphic novel promises a contemplative, human-scaled story set against the cold geometry of modern urban engineering. The muted, sandy palette and the solitary man's stillness amid all that relentless motion set an immediate, thoughtful tone.