Bitume

François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’ Bitume is a two-issue series from Casterman, launched in 1996, that distills the duo’s signature architectural surrealism into a compact, asphalt-bound mystery. A lone driver navigates a labyrinthine, ever-shifting highway system, where the road itself becomes a character in a meditation on isolation and the modern landscape. Though brief, it’s a concentrated dose of the creators’ celebrated world-building, offering a haunting, self-contained journey that resonates with fans of their Obscure Cities cycle.