Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies

Max Huffman’s Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies is a single-issue comic from AdHouse Books (2021–present) that blends the gritty tropes of crime fiction with the absurdist, deadpan humor of a vintage joke book. Huffman, serving as both writer and artist, crafts a self-contained, idiosyncratic one-shot that matters as a singular, offbeat statement—a playful deconstruction of the crime genre delivered with a minimalist, cartoonish aesthetic.