Buzzelli #1

Published by Les Cahiers Dessinés in 2017, this handsome collected volume gathers four of Guido Buzzelli's most celebrated works — Le Labyrinthe, Zil Zelub, Annalisa et le Diable, and L'Interview — into a single essential edition. The cover illustration, signed by Buzzelli himself, is a stunning black-and-white maelstrom of grotesque figures, a towering ape-like creature looming over a churning crowd of warriors, horsemen, and writhing bodies that fills every inch of the frame with dense, almost feverish energy. For anyone drawn to darkly imaginative European comics, this Œuvres I is a deeply rewarding place to discover — or rediscover — an artist of remarkable vision.