Isle of 100,000 Graves

In this eerie, wordless fantasy from Fantagraphics, a young girl adrift on a raft washes ashore on a mysterious island populated entirely by children. Norwegian artist Jason’s clean, deadpan cartooning brings a haunting stillness to Fabien Vehlmann’s story, as the island’s young inhabitants—all ghosts of children lost at sea—grapple with their spectral existence. A single-issue tale, it distills a lifetime of melancholy into a quiet, beautifully drawn meditation on death and childhood.