Graphic Novel Selection Spring 2026

The coming of spring, with its light and sunshine, seems contradictory to the times in which we live. Yet it also reminds us that the light always returns, no matter how dark the winter. 

The three very different graphic novels in our spring selection are pertinent to our times in their own way: light and darkness take center stage in 'Lucien', 'PRHSTR' sheds light on the early condition humaine, and 'Brittlebrave' is a testimony to resilience and the value of vulnerability.

Lucien is avoided like the plague: when he’s around, someone always dies. He lives like a hunted animal, but he can’t be wounded or killed. Not even he understands exactly who he is. This impressive and mysterious tale reads like an enchanting dream, and is an original and ingeniously composed graphic novel about the closeness of death.

In the wordless ‘PRHSTR’ Sébastien Conard places a faceless group of people from prehistory at centre stage. This brave move creates a very different kind of reading experience. This apparently abstract book is colourful, poetic and from time to time downright moving.

Sabien Clement reports in word and image from the eye of the storm: a severe burnout that has put her entire life on hold. ‘Brittlebrave’ is the word Clement invented for what she believes a person must be capable of being: vulnerable, yet fully aware of the strength that lies within that vulnerability. With her honest drawings and observations, the author fully exemplifies that word in this book.