Bête Noire: The International Comic Art Quarterly

From 2005 to the present, Fantagraphics’ Bête Noire: The International Comic Art Quarterly is a singular, offbeat showcase of global cartooning, with David Heatley as its most frequent artist. Though only one issue has been published, it stands as a curious artifact of the publisher’s commitment to eclectic, boundary-pushing work—a snapshot of an ambitious project that never quite took flight.