Le grand mort

In Le grand mort, Vents d'Ouest published a brooding eight-issue series from 2007 to 2019, a slow-burn meditation on mortality and the supernatural. The story unfolds in a small French village where the boundary between life and death grows porous, drawing its atmosphere from the region's folklore. Most associated with writer Régis Hautière and artist Thomas Labourot, the series earned a reputation for its melancholic, painterly art and quiet, philosophical horror. It stands as a distinctive French graphic novel that treats the undead not as monsters, but as a hauntingly natural part of the landscape.