Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #16

From Piranha Press — DC's mature-readers imprint — comes this quietly unsettling volume in Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman's acclaimed anthology series. Dan Sweetman's cover painting dominates with a weathered, bearded figure in a worn hat and clown-like red lips, rendered in moody washes of sepia and shadow that suggest melancholy beneath a faded performance. With a story titled "The Santas of Demotion Street," this 1990 issue promises the kind of offbeat, emotionally layered storytelling that made Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children such a distinctive corner of the DC universe.