Eightball #[nn]

Daniel Clowes' Eightball, published by Éditions Cornélius in 2009, arrives with a wonderfully dense cover illustration — a sidewalk teeming with an eccentric crowd of ordinary urbanites, a green-skinned monster, a miniature caped figure crouching near the ground, a shaggy brown animal, and dozens of other oddball characters all jostling for space. The cover, penciled and inked entirely by Clowes himself, perfectly captures his gift for blending the mundane and the surreal into a single, richly layered scene. It's the kind of image you'll keep returning to, discovering a new face or strange detail with each look.