Grands Anciens (Old Ones)

Lovely cover-artwork for a new French graphic novel, Grands Anciens (Old Ones) by Bojan Vukic and Jean-Marc Laine. The myth of the Kraken is given the Lovecraftian treatment, filtered through Herman Melville…

“New England, 1850. Ishmael is a young sailor who dreams of joining a whaling ship and going on an adventure on the high seas. One night in New Bedford, a fishing port overlooking the ocean, he met Herman Melville, a strange man who tells him the wildest stories — including that of the young captain Ahab, who once decide to go hunting the giant sea Kraken. But to raise it he first needed to find a certain sailor, a survivor of the Kraken attacks, who had kept a secret book of incantations and ungodly knowledge. Once this book is used, it conjures up ‘the Kraken’, which turns out to be far more monstrous than the worst nightmares of sailors or the dreams of human history.”

ActuaBD has interior art samples, and very nice they look too…