Les Petites Prouesses de Clara Pilpoile #1

Part of Dargaud's Poisson Pilote imprint, this 2007 French-language album opens the Les Petites Prouesses de Clara Pilpoile series with a cover that feels immediately intimate and a little unsettling. Anne Simon's artwork places a wide-eyed young woman in a pink slip sprawled across a worn sofa, hugging herself amid scattered pills and small objects on the floor, while a shadowy figure looms in the background. It's a quietly charged image — melancholy, quirky, and drawn with Simon's distinctively spindly line work — that promises a story with real emotional texture.