Les damnés de la Commune #1

Raphaël Meyssan's Les damnés de la Commune opens its first volume with a striking woodcut-style cover depicting a lone drummer, rendered in stark black-and-white detail, beating a drum with quiet intensity — an image that immediately evokes the turbulent world of the Paris Commune. Published by Éditions Delcourt in 2017, this opening chapter, "À la recherche de Lavalette," promises a searching, human-scale story set against one of history's most dramatic urban upheavals. With artwork by James Dromgole Linton, the cover's restrained palette and engraving-like linework set a fittingly sombre and dignified tone for the journey ahead.