Le 100000e rêve de Philbert Desanex

In 1980, Gilbert Shelton launched a single-issue comic for Artefact, Le 100000e rêve de Philbert Desanex, a surreal, one-off journey into the slacker psyche of its titular dreamer. Shelton, best known for his underground comix work, brings his signature loose, expressive linework and deadpan absurdity to this standalone French publication. A curious artifact of Shelton’s European period, it’s a compact, self-contained oddity that matters as a glimpse of the artist’s international output beyond his more famous American strips.