The Woman with Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & the Greatest Art Heist That Never Was

In 2025, Fantagraphics launched this single-issue graphic novel exploring the real-life mystery of Maria Lani, a woman who posed for over fifty portraits by legendary modern artists in 1920s Paris—then vanished. Written and drawn by an acclaimed creator, it unravels an audacious art-world con that fooled some of the era's greatest painters. A fascinating, compact true-crime tale about identity, deception, and the mythmaking machine of the art market.