Taking advantage of May being the mois de la bd, here are a few titles I love, spotlighted, brought to the front, and given space:

Tara Booth's Nocturne tells the story of a nighttime fantasy that takes a surprising turn, with the artist's wordless panels and saturated, daubed colours primarily focused on the emotional landscape of the protagonist's foiled, then recovered, sexual encounter. Red Colored Elegy, by Seiichi Hayashi, similarly lives beyond speech. The 1970 Nouvelle Vague-inspired manga is all atmosphere and heightened emotion as it follows a young couple who fail to connect. 

Bitch Planet (Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro) pays homage to the best of pulp comics to create a world both wholly fictional and frighteningly familiar. When a literal patriarchy takes control, consigning all "non-compliant" women to the penitentiary colony known as Bitch Planet, they have no idea of the rebellion that awaits them. Mathilde Van Gheluwe's Funky Town is Belladonna of Sadness by way of Russian folklore, a dark San Junipero-style town in which a twelve-year-old poet visits Baba Yaga with little thought to her safety.