Laid Waste

Set in a bleak, medieval-tinged world, Laid Waste is a single-issue comic from Fantagraphics that follows a woman and her infant as they flee from a mysterious plague. Artist and writer Julia Gfrörer crafts a starkly intimate, wordless narrative driven by her signature, moody linework and atmospheric dread. The story distills survival and maternal desperation into a haunting, minimal visual poem.