An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality #[nn]

David Sandlin's fever-dream vision fills every inch of this 2006 Fantagraphics picto-novelette with writhing, purple-toned figures — humans, serpents, wide-eyed grotesques, and strange animal-headed creatures tumbling together across a lurid green landscape beneath a sky of shadowy, tentacled forms. The hand-lettered title blazes in neon pinks and yellows, setting the tone for what promises to be a deliriously carnivalesque journey through the alphabet. Sandlin's dense, maximalist linework is on full display here, and fans of underground comics and outsider-inflected art will find plenty to devour.