Pigeon-Man, the Birdbrain

Russell Ferry’s Pigeon-Man, the Birdbrain is a two-issue oddity from Ferry Tail Studio, launched in 1993 and still simmering in the creator’s imagination. A solo labor of love, Ferry writes and draws this offbeat series, which stands as a cult artifact of self-published, idiosyncratic comics. Its premise—a man with the mind and mannerisms of a pigeon—is a deadpan, absurdist take on the superhero genre, mattering for its stubborn, personal vision in an era of big publishers.