Cerebus #265

The stark, wintry photograph on this cover — a snow-dusted field edged by bare, frost-laced trees under a grey April sky — sets a quietly haunting mood for "Going Home 34," the thirty-fourth chapter in Cerebus's long journey. Gerhard's cover work here steps entirely outside the realm of illustration, using a real-world landscape to convey solitude and the weight of distance traveled. It's a striking, understated image that reflects the thoughtful ambition Dave Sim and Gerhard brought to this long-running Aardvark-Vanaheim series in 2001.