Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #20

Piranha Press's Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #20 takes a darkly atmospheric turn with "Arnold: Confessions of a Blood Junkie," written by Dave Louapre with art by Dan Sweetman. The cover — painted by Sweetman — presents a hulking, pallid figure with fanged teeth and clasped hands, rendered in unsettling earth tones that give the image a watercolor-flesh quality somewhere between portraiture and nightmare. It's a quietly disturbing piece of 1991 horror comics that showcases Sweetman's ability to make the grotesque feel strangely mournful.