The evocative cover image is a photo I recognised, from the series 'Pulp' by Neil Krug, of his now-wife, Joni Harbeck. These photos, collected in a book of the same name, were taken using ancient, expired Polaroid film. That, combined with the crime/Western/hippie theme of the pictures, makes them look like long-lost, damaged stills from low-budget genre films of the 1960s and 1970s. Click for bigger versions.
The current French edition of Fatale looks like this...
..but it used to look like this...
..with an illustration by comics artist Jacques Tardi, with whom Manchette has collaborated on several crime graphic novels.
So there you go: crime novels, comics, B-movies and naked ladies--who says this isn't a cultured blog?
