One of the hottest bande dessinee series in France is Seuls ("Alone"). Not only a favorite with readers, but also an award winner: two time winner of the Youth Prize at the Angouleme Festival and two top awards from Le Journal de Mickey. A live action feature film was released in France in February 2017.

The premise of the series: Five children, of various ages and backgrounds, wake up to find their metropolitan city mysteriously and completely deserted.

From the publisher:

In the abandoned town, the children have established a new home and organised a life for themselves. As they prepare for a trip to other cities in an attempt to determine the extent of the phenomenon that saw everyone else vanish, they encounter and learn to deal with the problems of an existence without adults. Until one day a tall, knife-wielding figure appears, and their dream of finding someone else suddenly turns into a nightmare…