Carbunkle

Carbunkle is a Fantagraphics original, born in the early 1990s indie comics scene through James Sturm's Cereal Killings — one of those wonderfully offbeat series that captured the creative restlessness of the Copper/Modern Age. Debuting in issue #4 in 1993, Carbunkle navigates a quirky cast that includes Scarecrow, Burt, Snip, Doug, and Shirland, the kind of eclectic ensemble that signals something genuinely strange and inventive is going on. With only a handful of appearances across a short-lived run, this is a character for the dedicated digger — a cult curiosity from a publisher that never shied away from the weird and wonderful.