Super-cool graphic novel alert- Matt Lesniewsku's Faceless and the Family (Oni Press).
It is like hearing a piece of music for the first time that you don't know how to receive. But, if you try it a few more times, the music's brilliance eventually works on you and imprints on you. Your brain just wasn't wired for it the first time around. Likewise, you have to read these panels at least twice to acclimatize to Lesniewski's level of detail and beauty. There's a heady influence of underground comix here, and meditations on loneliness, depression, emptiness, neuroses, anxiety, fidelity and friendship that the writer-artist bakes into the work. I don't think I've ever read a comic like Faceless. This one's a stunner for your eyes, your heart, and your mind.
