Cud Comics #6

Terry LaBan's underground-flavored anthology returns with issue #6, and the cover says it all: a wide-eyed, bug-out cat sprawled across a ratty blue couch, surrounded by a "Poke Classic" can, a "Sweet 'N' Sickly" cereal box, a TV Guide, and a "Ho-Chunk Casino" mug — while a looming, toothy monster-head hovers menacingly above. It's a gloriously deadpan snapshot of domestic weirdness that perfectly captures LaBan's knack for mining everyday slacker life for surreal laughs, and with "Cat Story" on the docket, this 1996 Dark Horse issue delivers exactly the kind of offbeat, hand-crafted cartooning that made Cud Comics a standout in the alt-comics scene.