The Circus

A surreal, wordless black-and-white comic from 2019, The Circus is a single-issue meditation on the lonely, cyclical nature of performance. Created entirely by Lidan Chen, the story follows a solitary clown through a silent, dreamlike big top where every act is a strange, self-contained ritual. Its stark, expressive art and lack of dialogue make it a quietly haunting work that distills a whole world of feeling into a few pages.