Cerebus #36

Cerebus #36 brings Dave Sim's self-made independent series to a quietly striking moment with "The Night Before" — a story title that practically hums with anticipation. The cover, entirely Sim's own work from pencils to inks, presents a small, contemplative scene: the aardvark Cerebus and a robed figure standing before an enormous domed glass structure, the delicate grid of its architecture stretching across a pale sky. It's an understated image that trades the series' usual swords-and-sorcery energy for something more atmospheric and measured, a reminder of just how much creative range Sim was bringing to independent comics in 1982.