Always fun to see a Moebius-inspired artist! This is from an eight-issue miniseries published by Boom! Studios in the States, who also own the Archaia imprint, which stands out to me because it publishes some of the most 'Euro-like' titles I've seen across the American market.
It's set in the titular Spire, a vast city in the middle of a deadly wasteland, locked in war with religious zealots and riven by the tension between its rulers and the underclass of "Sculpted", humans who have been hybridized with nonhuman biology. The protagonist is Shå, the city's captain of police, who investigates a series of murders of aristocrats at a time when a new Baroness is crowned and the city's internal and external conflicts are about to come to a head.
More art samples:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Spire%22+Boom%21+comic&udm=2
Spurrier described the recipe for the series as "one part 'Mad Max,' one part 'Bladerunner,' one part 'Dark Crystal,' one part nutfuck insanity". (lol) Paste Magazine characterized the "beguiling" comic as inspired by China Miéville's Bas-Lag and Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris in creating a world where "the fantastical aspects don’t mitigate the worst aspects of human nature". --WP
Ayup, I'll be checking this one out for sure.
EDIT:
Daggit, I gave it a shot, but just didn't care for The Spire. For one thing, it was an unfortunate (yet common) case of the designers coming up with a really cool cover that didn't actually represent the interior pages. Sometimes that's perfectly fine, but other times, it's a big no-no IMO. Yet the more troubling issue for me was that I found the story-telling and panel-flow to be hugely choppy and non-helpful in terms of bringing the reader in to the world as created.
As a minor rant, I find this kind of thing disappointingly common across much of the American comics lit that falls outside 'superhero' and 'indie-alt.' As in-- you can create a fascinating world or backstory, and sometimes have absolutely breath-taking or (even better) lovely art, yet if you can't arrange it in to a sort of 'contiguous whole,' then what's the point, daggit?
Not trying to point any fingers here, but my little bitching and moaning above tends to apply far too often too Image's stuff (i.e. the US comics publisher). I don't quite know why that is, and yet... hmph.
To sound entirely too pompous here, the above is also kind of a conflicted situation for me, because after I absolutely fell head-over-heels in love with bandes dessinées, I always thought that it was only fair to look harder across American comics to find anything that could stand up to the general quality of BD (obviously from my POV). So this was yet again a case where I got a little bit excited at first, then felt let down.
Oh well. Let's go with BIRDKING then, as one where the first two books had a sort of 'American style' in terms of dramatics and 'power-moves,' but also had quality storytelling and flow, like my favorite BD.
https://www.google.com/search?q=birdking+comics&udm=2
\Alright, there's my bitchy mini-rant of the day! :D :S
Yeah, that's wonderful!
I'm really happy on the one hand that Tove herself did that magical watercolor book as her final Moomin piece (which I lightly reviewed and posted to your sub almost a year ago), but OTOH, one always craves more, you know..?