Hieronymus Bosch

In this single-issue graphic novel from German publisher avant-verlag, cartoonist Marcel Ruijters brings his own stark, expressionistic style to the life and surreal visions of the 15th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Rather than a conventional biography, the comic plunges into the artist's fantastical imagination, blending historical detail with the nightmarish, symbolic imagery that defines Bosch's most famous works. Ruijters’s dense, black-and-white linework captures the chaotic energy of the painter’s hellscapes, making this a distinctive, artist-driven meditation on creativity and the medieval mind. It stands as a singular, ambitious entry in the growing field of comics about art history.