Gahan Wilson’s Out There #[nn]

Gahan Wilson's singular imagination gets a showcase worthy of it in this Fantagraphics collection of his science fiction and fantasy cartoons and writings. The cover — Wilson's own work — sets the tone perfectly: a hulking, suit-wearing wolf slouched in a modernist armchair with an air of weary, unsettling nonchalance. It's a quietly absurd image that captures exactly why Wilson's brand of darkly comic unease has kept readers delightfully off-balance for decades.