Les crayons #[nn]

Frédéric Bihel's Les crayons, published by Futuropolis in 2024, opens with a quietly haunting cover: a child's silhouette stands in a doorway flooded with pale light, while an old travel trunk and a small yellow boat rest on worn floorboards nearby. The restrained, pencil-textured atmosphere — rendered almost entirely in sepia and shadow — gives the image a melancholy tenderness that draws you in before you've turned a single page. It's the kind of graphic novel that announces its emotional weight through stillness rather than spectacle.