Shit Is Real

From the German cartoonist Aisha Franz comes a surreal, deadpan meditation on modern alienation, published by Drawn & Quarterly in a single 2018 issue. Co-written with Nicholas Houde, Shit Is Real tracks a young woman's drifting existence through a landscape of hollow relationships and digital ennui, rendered in Franz's distinctive, emotionally flat linework. Its brief, potent run captures a specific millennial malaise with a wry, unsettling clarity that lingers long after the last page.