Rembrandt #1

The cover of this Dutch comics biography sets the tone perfectly: Pieter Hogenbirk renders a wonderfully expressive, wide-eyed caricature of Rembrandt himself in rich crosshatched linework that consciously echoes the Old Master's own etching style. Subtitled Vroeg werk ("Early Work"), this first issue from Strip2000 launches Herman Roozen and Hogenbirk's collaboration on the life of one of history's great painters. It's a smart, charming opener that wears its subject's artistic legacy right there on the cover.