Knockabout Comics #12

This 1986 edition of Knockabout's adult anthology wears its anarchic spirit right on its sleeve — Graham Higgins's cover art delivers a wild-eyed, yellow-faced trickster figure with an enormous gaping grin, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, set above a pair of crossed flintlock pistols against a vivid magenta background. The issue brings together work from Gilbert Shelton and Hunt Emerson, two mainstays of the underground comics world, alongside the introduction of Jack Alarum by Graham Higgins himself. Subtitled "Daydreams and Night Fears," this is Knockabout doing what it does best — gathering bold, uncompromising cartooning under one irreverent cover.