LOUSTALL
SCHURKENBLOED, illustrated by Pierre de Loustall.
I got sidetracked in a comics store in Ostend, Belgium. This was one of my favorites. Beautiful line-work, and great atmospheric values.
With hindsight I probably should have waited until I reached French-speaking Brussels before I blew my Euros in a comics store, then I could have bought a French version and more or less figured out the story.
I AM (NOT) THE WALRUS
Bloody marvelous. The composition on the cover is FAULTLESS. It works brilliantly, and the treatment of light and dark in all of them is fantastic. Rare to see both colour and line used so well and to equal measure.