Julius Corentin Acquefacques, Gefangener der Träume #[3]

A mesmerizing black-and-yellow spiral dominates the cover of this German-language Reprodukt edition, with Julius Corentin Acquefacques tumbling helplessly through it — blue suit askew, hat flying off — in a scene that perfectly captures the surreal, dream-logic world Marc-Antoine Mathieu has made his own. Published in 2008, "Der Wirbel" (The Vortex) is the third volume in Mathieu's celebrated series about a man trapped within the fabric of his own dreams, and the cover art — pencils and inks both by Mathieu himself — announces something genuinely disorienting in the best possible way. If you're drawn to comics that play with perception and reality, this one is hard to resist.