La patience du tigre - Une Aventure de Jeanne Picquigny #[nn]

Fred Bernard's La Patience du Tigre presents an adventure of Jeanne Picquigny through a cover that is immediately arresting — a young dark-haired woman sits serenely at the center while an enormous, elaborately stylized tiger-deity looms behind her, multi-armed and commanding, rendered in striking black-and-white ink work with bold graphic confidence. The contrast between the calm figure and the towering mythic presence gives the image a quietly electric tension. Published by Casterman in 2012 under their Écritures line, this is the kind of album whose cover alone earns a long second look.