Fatty Arbuckle and His Funny Friends

Kim Deitch’s eccentric tribute to silent-film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, this one-shot from Fantagraphics (2004) blends archival Hollywood lore with Deitch’s signature surreal, hand-drawn storytelling. A standalone oddity rather than an ongoing series, it matters as a singular, affectionate artifact of early cinema’s tragicomic figures, filtered through one of alt-comics’ most distinctive voices.