The Complete Crepax #9

Fantagraphics' ongoing mission to collect Guido Crepax's complete works reaches its ninth volume with City Stories, and the cover alone signals the dreamy, psychedelic sophistication that made Crepax one of Europe's most distinctive comics voices. A young woman in boots and a short dress sits in an ornate armchair, clutching a vintage portable television to her chest — its round screen reflecting her own face — while swirling, painterly abstract forms dissolve along the left edge of the image, blending the mundane and the surreal with effortless cool. Rendered in Crepax's signature limited palette of teal, pink, and chartreuse, this 2025 collection is an invitation into the stylish, psychologically charged urban world he made entirely his own.