Krmkrm #4

From Reprodukt's 1997 underground anthology, this fourth issue of Krmkrm features Markuss Golschinski's story "Die zweite Hälfte des Himmels" — and the cover he created for it crackles with raw energy. A chaotic tangle of punk and youth-culture figures piles into the frame: a mohawked kid crowd-surfing, a guitarist wailing away, and a swirl of bodies packed together in what feels like a sweaty, exhilarating live-music pile-on. Golschinski's loose, expressive linework captures exactly the kind of barely-contained chaos that made late-'90s German alternative comics feel genuinely alive.