Spiral Cage

Al Davison’s Spiral Cage is a deeply personal, autobiographical graphic novel published by Renegade Press in 1988. Written and illustrated entirely by Davison, it chronicles his life with spina bifida, offering an unflinching yet poetic exploration of disability, identity, and resilience. This single-issue work stands as an early landmark in the alternative comics movement, using expressive black-and-white art to transform a deeply individual story into a universal meditation on the human spirit.