Cravan #[nn]

Few real-life figures are stranger or more elusive than Arthur Cravan, and this Dark Horse graphic novel from 2005 gives him a treatment as vivid as the life he supposedly led. The cover, illustrated by Rick Geary, places a towering, trench-coated Cravan striding across a rubble-strewn landscape, wielding an oversized fountain pen like a standard — surrounding him in circular vignettes are a bare-knuckle boxer, a red-haired woman, and a mustachioed figure backed by a hammer-and-sickle emblem, with a military tank lurking in the background. Written by Mike Richardson and Rick Geary, this is the kind of biography-as-adventure that reminds you truth can be every bit as strange as fiction.