Kapitein Dick Tator #[nn]

From Dutch publisher HUM! comes this 2017 album featuring Kapitein Dick Tator, rendered entirely by Ben Kamphuis in a striking red-and-grey palette. The cover shows the stocky, mohawked captain charging forward in front of a graffiti-covered wall, surrounded by a crowd of sketchy background figures — an image that crackles with scrappy energy. The subtitle "dienstreis naar het einde van de Koude Oorlog" ("a working trip to the end of the Cold War") promises a story steeped in late-twentieth-century political atmosphere.