Peau d'encre #[nn]

From Eidola Éditions comes this charming French graphic novel billed right on the cover as "un conte pour adultes" — a fairy tale for grown-ups. Antoine Paris's loose, expressive watercolor cover sets a wonderfully offbeat tone: a tattooed, striped-shirted figure sits in an ornate armchair cradling a smaller, wide-eyed companion, while a sketchy little bird drifts overhead on a kraft-paper background. It's an immediately inviting piece of work that promises something tender, strange, and thoroughly its own.