Critters #40

Critters #40 brings a Midsummer Night's Enchantment to Fantagraphics' beloved anthology, with Freddy Milton's cover setting the mood beautifully beneath a glowing moon. The scene unfolds among towering standing stones — think Stonehenge by moonlight — where a duck character and a frog companion scramble away from a winged, horned creature, while two more small figures huddle together nearby. Milton's warm, cartoonish linework gives the whole magical chase a lighthearted energy that perfectly teases his interior story, "The Puzzling Pipes of Pan.