Cerebus #279

Here's a cover that leans into cheerful absurdity with genuine charm — Cerebus the aardvark stands front and center in a white robe and striped pajama pants, clutching what appears to be a book, while two small white bunnies sit at his feet. The cover art by Dave Sim and Tracy Reid cleverly splits the background between a field of bright orange flowers above and a silhouetted pine tree sunset below, with the playful annotations "Pretty Flowers!" and "Pretty Sunsets!" underlining the deadpan humor. This June 2002 installment of the long-running Aardvark-Vanaheim series, written and lettered by Sim with art by both Sim and Gerhard, captures the series' unique blend of the mundane and the philosophical beautifully.