Sick Annual

Arnoldo Franchioni both wrote and drew every issue of this short-lived, six-issue annual from Hewfred Publications, running from 1969 to 1974. A morbidly humorous anthology series, Sick Annual delivered a distinctively grim brand of satire and horror-tinged comedy, standing apart from more mainstream humor comics of the era. Its singular creative vision and offbeat tone make it a curious artifact of late-sixties and early-seventies underground-adjacent publishing.