À la lettre près #[nn]

That close-cropped, intensely expressive face staring out from the cover — rendered in Cyrille Pomès's moody green-tinted pencilwork — makes an immediate, quiet impression. Published by Glénat in 2018, À la lettre près announces itself as a deeply personal, atmospherically drawn work from Pomès, whose sketchy, intimate linework gives the young figure a raw emotional weight. If the cover is any measure, this is the kind of Franco-Belgian comics storytelling that draws you in with restraint rather than spectacle.