Cerebus #18

Aardvark-Vanaheim's long-running self-published saga reaches its eighteenth issue with "Fluroc," and Dave Sim's cover lays out a striking visual spread: a robed figure holding the aardvark Cerebus stands at the center-right, surrounded by a grid of portraits — a muscular pink figure, two stern older men, two silhouetted cloaked figures, and a helmeted warrior peering up from the bottom. The collage-style layout gives the whole thing an almost theatrical quality, teasing a cast of characters with notably different temperaments and stations. Sim handles every aspect of the cover himself, and the confident linework reflects the growing ambition that made this series a cornerstone of the independent comics movement in 1980.