Hopital

Ted Benoît’s Hopital is a single-issue, standalone graphic novel from French publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés, first released in 1979. A darkly satirical, wordless visual narrative, it follows the surreal and chaotic journey of a patient through a nightmarish, bureaucratic hospital. Benoît’s detailed, expressionistic linework and silent storytelling create a haunting, Kafkaesque atmosphere that remains a striking example of the European graphic novel’s capacity for purely visual narrative.