Chartwell Manor: A Comics Memoir #[nn]

Glenn Head's Chartwell Manor is a comics memoir that wears its ambitions openly — the cover alone sets a striking tone, with a brooding red-brick manor tower rising under a storm-streaked night sky, surrounded by swirling bat-winged creatures and fantastical beasts. In the foreground, a young boy labeled "Glen" sits apart at a desk, while a group of schoolmates lingers nearby and a disembodied adult face looms ominously in the clouds above. R. Crumb's blurb — "This is—well, okay, I'll say it: A MASTERPIECE! Truly." — speaks to the raw, hand-crafted energy Head brings to every line of this 2021 Fantagraphics release.