The Amateurs

In The Amateurs, Conor Stechschulte crafts a tense, single-issue comic for Fantagraphics that follows a group of suburbanites drawn into a disturbing and ambiguous ritual. A meditation on voyeurism and complicity, the story unfolds through Stechschulte’s stark, precise linework and an unsettling narrative that resists easy answers. This 2014 debut remains a striking, self-contained work from an independent cartoonist known for his psychological edge.