Hollywoodland

From 1987, Fantagraphics published Kim Deitch's Hollywoodland, a single-issue comic that distills the artist's singular, hallucinatory vision of early cinema into a compact fever dream. Deitch, the sole writer and artist, crafts a labyrinthine tale where the line between silent-era Hollywood mythology and his own surreal imagination dissolves. This standalone work matters as a concentrated blast of Deitch's genius, a self-contained masterpiece that captures his obsession with forgotten film history and the strange, tangled roots of American pop culture.