A Small Killing #[nn]

A Small Killing is a 1991 graphic novel from Victor Gollancz that brings together writer Alan Moore and artist Oscar Zárate for what feels like a deeply unsettling psychological portrait. Oscar Zárate's cover painting places a haggard, bespectacled man gripping a pint of beer in the foreground, his expression hollow and haunted, while behind him a jagged tear in reality reveals a grinning, sinister figure looming in a crowd of distorted faces. The juxtaposition of the mundane pub setting against that lurking, almost predatory presence behind him sets a quietly dread-filled tone that draws you in immediately.