The Sanctuary #[nn]

Nate Neal's The Sanctuary announces itself with a cover that feels genuinely unsettling — a huddled group of primitive figures gathered around a fire, a wild-haired woman at the center, while a horned skull creature lurks in the shadows and a crudely drawn red demon icon hovers above them all. The raw, hand-scratched linework and dark palette give the whole scene a cave-painting intensity that's hard to look away from. Published by Fantagraphics in 2010, this is the kind of singular, atmospheric work that makes clear an unusual creative vision is at play.