De avonturen van Urbanus #180

Issue 180 of the long-running Belgian humor series brings the chaos of a fairground straight to its colorful cover, where a rotund Urbanus dressed in festive red clutches a spinning carnival wheel as fireworks burst around him. Alongside him, a grinning yellow figure in a purple outfit and top hat dances gleefully, while a bearded wizard peers over a wooden fence and a little red bird watches from below. Linthout's artwork crackles with the same anarchic energy that has kept this series a staple of Flemish comics throughout the decades, and this 2018 entry — "Kermis in de broek van Urbanus" — promises all the absurdist carnival spirit its title suggests.