The Cobra + the Mermaid

In this surreal 2014 debut from S.N.U.F.A., artist Kelly Stiles crafts a single-issue meeting between a cobra and a mermaid, two figures whose encounter suggests a strange, silent dialogue between myth and menace. The book's stark, atmospheric visuals—Stiles' sole credited work on the series—create a mood piece that lingers on the tension of an impossible intersection. A quiet, one-shot oddity from an independent publisher, it matters as a pure, unadorned exercise in visual storytelling.