Billie Holiday #[nn]

Muñoz and Sampayo bring their signature high-contrast graphic style to this Fantagraphics tribute, with the cover depicting Billie Holiday commanding a vintage microphone, flower in her hair, her image echoed in ghostly repetition behind her as two admiring figures look on from the lower left. It's a striking visual that captures the magnetism and melancholy of Lady Day with bold pinks, deep blacks, and expressive linework that feels unmistakably alive. For fans of jazz history and literary comics alike, this 1993 release is a thoughtful, beautifully rendered portrait in sequential art form.