La Déconfiture #[nn]

Pascal Rabaté's La Déconfiture from Futuropolis Poche is a quietly gripping piece of French graphic storytelling set against the shadow of June 1940 — "Il faisait beau mais les temps étaient couverts." The cover renders two men in close conversation, one in military uniform and helmet, the other in civilian clothes, with a vintage car and spare rural landscape behind them — a deceptively calm image that carries the weight of an uncertain era. Rabaté's restrained, expressive linework gives the scene an immediacy that draws you straight into the mood of a nation at a crossroads.