Monica #[nn]

Daniel Clowes brings his singular artistic vision to Monica, and the cover alone signals something special: a cool-blue profile portrait of a woman with a sculpted bouffant hairstyle, rendered against a star-scattered cosmos alive with colorful floating shapes and a glowing yellow sun. The image has the hypnotic, retro-futurist quality that makes Clowes's work so immediately recognizable — intimate yet vast, grounded yet otherworldly. With Clowes handling every creative role himself in 2023, this is as pure a personal statement as comics gets.