Som en sammetshandske smidd i järn

Swedish publisher Epix released Daniel Clowes’s Som en sammetshandske smidd i järn as a single issue in 2008, collecting the American cartoonist’s celebrated eight-issue series Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron in a local edition. Clowes’s signature blend of deadpan surrealism and psychological unease drives this foundational work, which helped define the alternative-comics landscape of the 1990s with its haunting, fragmented narrative.