Dessus-Dessous

A singular, one-issue oddity from French publisher Horay, Dessus-Dessous (1977) is a tribute to the ingenious "upside-down" comic strips of turn-of-the-century artist Gustave Verbeek. The issue reprints Verbeek's pioneering work—narratives that you read one way, then flip the book over to continue the story with the same illustrations cleverly inverted. Assembled with scholarly care by Pierre Couperie, this slim volume preserves a playful, forgotten corner of early comics innovation.