Chimera

Long a superstar in his native Italy, Lorenzo Mattotti has made sporadic incursions into the US via appearances in RAW magazine, the classic Fires graphic novel and the more recent 2003 Eiser-winning Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adaptation from NBM. Chimera, with its intricate, hyper-expressive swirls of crisp line work shows that Mattotti's genius is bound by no single technique. A wordless fantasia of birth, death, gods, monsters and humans, Chimera is the most astonishing visual narrative readers are likely to see.