Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman

David Boswell’s Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, published by Deep-Sea Comics from 1996 to 1998, chronicles the misadventures of its surly, deadpan protagonist through nine issues of dark, offbeat humor. Boswell, who wrote and drew the entire series, crafted a distinctively gritty and absurd world where the titular milkman’s relentless, no-nonsense attitude clashes with a surreal urban landscape. A cult favorite for its singular voice and uncompromising tone, the series stands as a landmark of independent comics’ willingness to embrace the strange and the mundane in equal measure.