The Death-Ray Rico Taveras Tarpe Mills and Dale Messick

Tarpe Mills and Dale Messick both dressed to kill and included paper dolls featuring their heroines’ chic 1940s wardrobes

Nominated for an Academy Award in 2010 for best animated feature

Josh Bayer

2021 (originally published 2015)

The Death-Ray Rico Taveras Tarpe Mills and Dale MessickBy Daniel Clowes. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Hardcover, 48 pages, Colour, 2011. ON TIME, NPR AND USA TODAY'S BEST OF 2011 LISTS! WINNER OF THE EISNER, HARVEY AND IGNATZ AWARDS Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxiousbut loyalLouie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes,