The Labyrinth

“The Labyrinth is paired with Zil Zelub in this first volume of his collected works. The first concerns a literal everyman (‘uomo medio’) right after an unspecified apocalypse—talk about in medias res! I defy anyone to look at the largely wordless first five pages and not think, ‘This is a comics master.’ The action ranges from mad scientists experimenting with new human-animal hybrids to an ethereal upper world ruled by rationality, whose inhabitants’ perfect bodies are assembled with parts taken from those left outside its walls.” Read more...

The Best European Graphic Novels

Edward Gauvin, Translator