Les Disparues d’Orsay #[nn]

A striking 2017 Futuropolis release, Les Disparues d'Orsay presents a cover that blurs the line between fine art and sequential storytelling — a swirling vortex of entwined figures rendered in warm, painterly tones engulfs the composition, while a locomotive emerges from below as if plunging into or escaping from that turbulent mass of humanity. Stéphane Levallois brings a genuinely arresting visual sensibility to this collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay, merging 19th-century academic painting aesthetics with the kinetic energy of the graphic novel form. At 19,50 EUR, it's a beautifully conceived volume that feels as much an art object as a comic.