Art Comic #[nn]

Matthew Thurber's Art Comic arrives from Drawn & Quarterly with a cover that perfectly captures its irreverent spirit: a wide-eyed, spiky-haired figure soars through a city street, suspended between an ornate pink classical building on one side and a sleek glass tower guarded by an oversized orange balloon-animal dog on the other. The tension between old-world architecture and contemporary art-world spectacle is right there in the image, rendered in Thurber's loose, expressive line work with a dreamy pastel palette. It's a witty, visually confident package that promises something genuinely singular inside.