Lonesome

Yves Swolfs both writes and illustrates this taut, three-issue Western series from Le Lombard, launched in 2018. Following a lone rider through a harsh frontier landscape, Lonesome strips the genre to its essentials, with Swolfs’s stark, expressive art and lean storytelling evoking the tradition of classic European bande dessinée. It’s a spare, atmospheric work that demonstrates the enduring power of a solitary figure in an unforgiving world.