Uptight #3

Jordan Crane's Uptight No. 3 announces itself with unsettling confidence: a close-up face rendered in sickly green, mouth wrenched wide open in what could be a scream or a laugh, dripping with lurid pink. Crane's linework is precise and deeply expressive, turning a simple composition into something genuinely unnerving. A distinctive entry in Fantagraphics' 2009 lineup, this issue makes clear that Uptight operates on its own strange, compelling frequency.