Affentheater

In Affentheater, a collaboration between Swiss-German artist Martin Budde and the French duo Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot, the comic strips the mechanics of storytelling itself, presenting a series of absurdist, meta-fictional vignettes where characters break the fourth wall and narrative logic dissolves. Published by Edition Moderne and ongoing since 2009, this single-issue series is a playful, formally inventive experiment that deconstructs the medium with dry humor and surrealist flair. It matters as a cult artifact of European avant-garde comics, showcasing the trio’s shared interest in narrative deconstruction and the boundaries of comic art.