Cerebus #60

Aardvark-Vanaheim's long-running self-publishing landmark reaches issue #60 with this March 1984 entry, written, drawn, and lettered entirely by Dave Sim. The cover, also rendered by Sim, assembles a striking cast: a screaming, heavyset man in a flat cap dominates the center foreground, flanked by a white-haired woman on the left and an elegant dark-haired woman in a burgundy robe on the right, while a glowing golden figure soars dramatically above them all against a swirling dark void. Titled "Sophia," this issue promises the kind of atmospheric character tension that made Cerebus one of the most ambitious independent comics of its era.