Beatnik Buenos Aires #[nn]

The bold yellow-and-black cover of Beatnik Buenos Aires announces itself with striking typographic confidence, its oversized title letters filled with a mosaic of Facundo Percio's grayscale vignettes — glimpses of suited figures, mysterious women, masked faces, and shadowy urban scenes that suggest a rich, atmospheric world waiting inside. Percio's pencils and inks bring a gritty, noir-tinged energy to every letterform, turning the title itself into a kind of collage portrait of Buenos Aires's dark corners. Writer Diego Arandojo and artist Facundo Percio deliver what looks, from this 2021 Fantagraphics release, like a deeply textured love letter to a city and its stories.