Ink & Anguish: A Jay Lynch Anthology #[nn]

Jay Lynch's wild, rubbery cartoon sensibility is on full display right on the cover of this Fantagraphics anthology — a long-nosed, wide-eyed wise guy in a pink bow tie and cowboy hat squares off against a beady-eyed bird, both rendered in Lynch's gleefully irreverent underground style. Collecting Lynch's work with contributions contextualized by Ed Piskor and Patrick Rosenkranz, Ink & Anguish offers a generous look at one of underground comix's most distinctive voices. At $34.99, it's a substantial dive into decades of sharp, funny, deeply personal cartooning.