Le Docteur Héraclius Gloss #[nn]

Adapted from Guy de Maupassant, this Delcourt Mirages edition brings J.-S. Bordas's charming yet eerie vision to life — the cover alone sets a wonderfully off-kilter tone, showing the diminutive, top-hatted Docteur Héraclius Gloss scrambling through a darkened village street while an enormous black cat looms over him with unsettling calm. The warm ochres and deep shadows give the scene a storybook unease that feels perfectly suited to Maupassant's sensibility. A 2004 French-language gem that blends literary pedigree with genuinely inventive cartooning.