The Wipeout

In this single, striking 2003 issue from Fantagraphics, Italian cartoonist Francesca Ghermandi (with translator Kim Thompson) delivers a surreal, wordless vision of a day at the beach that spirals into a strange, dreamlike apocalypse. Ghermandi’s expressive, ink-heavy art turns a familiar setting into a playground of bizarre transformations and quiet dread, making The Wipeout a memorable, standalone artifact of her distinctive European comics sensibility.