The Magic Whistle #13

Sam Henderson's long-running humor anthology reaches issue #13 with the same gleefully absurdist energy that has kept it "popular among people aware of its existence for 20 years." The bright green cover sets the tone immediately: a pink cartoon figure stands bedside, indignantly complaining to a reclining person about how annoying it is to have one's organs harvested during sleep — labeled boxes of "heart" and "lung" already in hand. It's the kind of deadpan, wonderfully strange comedy that makes The Magic Whistle a genuinely rewarding find for fans of offbeat, indie cartooning.