Ronald Reagan

Chester Brown's Yummy Fur was one of the most audacious comics to emerge from the Copper Age's underground-inflected small press scene, and the Ronald Reagan who turns up in its pages beginning in 1987 is very much a creature of that anarchic spirit — a version of the then-sitting U.S. president filtered through Brown's surrealist, boundary-pushing sensibility for Vortex Comics. With only five catalogued appearances, this is a cameo-sized but culturally charged presence, sharing the wild, unpredictable pages of Yummy Fur with a cast as eclectic as Jesus Christ and Ed the Happy Clown. For collectors drawn to the era when alternative comics were at their most gleefully transgressive, this is exactly the kind of strange, era-specific artifact that makes digging through Copper Age back issues so rewarding.