Long John Silver

A sweeping reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, this French series from Dargaud Benelux casts Long John Silver not as a mere pirate but as a complex, aging antihero navigating a treacherous new world of colonial ambition and buried secrets. Running from 2007 to 2013 across four oversized issues, the saga is defined by the lush, painterly art of Jean-Marie Michaud and the gritty, morally ambiguous scripting of Xavier Dorison, who together elevate the adventure into a meditation on loyalty, greed, and the cost of freedom. It matters as a mature, visually stunning European graphic novel that reinvigorates a beloved literary figure with psychological depth and historical grit.