Now #5

Fantagraphics' Now anthology continues to spotlight some of the most adventurous voices in contemporary cartooning, and issue #5 makes that mission impossible to ignore. Stéphane Blanquet's cover is a riot of dense, hallucinatory color — a tangle of monstrous, wide-eyed figures, writhing limbs, and surreal organic forms rendered in vivid greens, reds, and oranges that practically vibrate off the page. It's the kind of cover that signals something genuinely strange and rewarding waits inside.