Manson #3

The third chapter of Glénat's unflinching graphic chronicle of Charles Manson arrives with a cover that wastes no time setting the tone — a blood-soaked figure raises a weapon in a desperate, violent frenzy while two women loom behind him against the shadowy facade of a house draped in an American flag. Cédric Rassat's writing and Paolo Bisi's illustration work together to frame Par une longue nuit d'été… ("On a long summer night…") as a portrait of darkness that feels both visceral and disturbingly grounded. This 2010 release from Glénat continues what is clearly one of the more serious and unflinching European comics treatments of this chapter in American history.