Death & Candy
Fantagraphics Books (1998-2005)
These are the abstract expressionist visions of Swedish underground artist Max Andersson. His symbolism, like his artwork, is something less than subtle.
Fantagraphics rapidly achieved a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn’t know existed or wouldn’t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the ’60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.
Weird and strange doesn’t begin to cover this guy’s stuff. It’s all done in a unique style resembling woodcuts.