Een kalfslederen onderbroek om U tegen te zeggen #[nn]

Published by De Harmonie in 2006, this Dutch collection from the singular cartoonist Gummbah announces itself with deadpan confidence: a solitary orange briefs — rendered in clean, flat color against a glowing purple oval on a deep plum background — is all the visual argument the cover needs to make. The title, Een kalfslederen onderbroek om U tegen te zeggen ("A calfskin underpants to tell you about"), perfectly captures Gummbah's gift for absurdist non sequitur dressed up in formal politeness. With line art, inking, and coloring all handled by Gummbah himself, this is a tightly controlled vision of comic strangeness from one of the Netherlands' most distinctive humor voices.