Johnny Goodbye

In this brief, two-issue series from the mid-1980s, Belgian writer Yves Duval and Italian artist Dino Attanasio crafted a stylish, European crime thriller for Edition des Archers. Johnny Goodbye follows its eponymous hard-boiled protagonist through a world of shadowy intrigue, with Attanasio’s crisp, clean ligne claire linework lending a sophisticated, cinematic feel to Duval’s taut, noir-influenced storytelling. A compact but polished example of the Franco-Belgian tradition of detective comics, it remains a minor cult gem for fans of the genre.