Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children #26

From Piranha Press's quietly daring Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children comes this 1992 installment, "Dead Like Me," brought to life by the distinctive hand of writer Dave Louapre and artist/inker Dan Sweetman. The cover presents a luminous, ethereal figure — a winged, angelic form sprawled mid-fall or mid-flight, arms outstretched — surrounded by a swirl of sketched birds and creatures rendered in Sweetman's delicate, painterly style. There's something both serene and unsettling about the image that perfectly captures the offbeat, thoughtful tone this anthology series made its own.