The Motherless Oven

In The Motherless Oven, writer-artist Rob Davis crafts a surreal and haunting vision for SelfMadeHero, where three teenagers in a bizarre, rain-soaked world must confront the literal embodiment of their parents' deaths. Launched in 2014, this singular, ongoing graphic novel blends dark fantasy with coming-of-age dread, its eerie, angular artwork and off-kilter dialogue establishing Davis as a distinctive voice in British comics. The series matters for its unflinching exploration of family, mortality, and the strangeness of growing up, all filtered through a deeply original and unsettling lens.