Cerebus #63

The fourth installment of the "Mind Game" storyline arrives in Cerebus #63, and the cover — penciled and inked by Dave Sim — makes a bold visual statement with its towering, stylized "Mind Game IV" typography dominating the page, while the title "Cerebus" cascades repeatedly down the right side in flowing blue lettering. A tiny silhouette of Cerebus himself stands dwarfed at the lower left, a quietly striking contrast to all that grand lettering. Published in 1984 by Aardvark-Vanaheim, this is the kind of issue that reminds you how inventive independent comics could be in that era.