The Bus

A single-issue, wordless comic from 1987 published by Random House, The Bus is a surreal, silent journey through a city bus's daily route, rendered in meticulous black-and-white detail by artist Paul Kirchner. The series compresses a lifetime of bizarre, dreamlike encounters—from passengers transforming into animals to the bus navigating impossible landscapes—into a single, looping narrative. Its matter-of-fact absurdity and precise draftsmanship make it a cult classic of underground-influenced storytelling, a meditation on the strange and the mundane coexisting on a city street.