The Freak

Matt Lesniewski’s The Freak, a single-issue comic from AdHouse Books launched in 2019, is a stark, surreal character study that follows a man living in a garbage dump, haunted by his own monstrous appearance and the cruel society that shuns him. Lesniewski’s dense, scratchy art and wordless storytelling create a visceral, haunting fable about alienation and humanity, marking a bold, self-contained statement from an emerging cartoonist.