Tupelo

Tupelo, a 2004 one-shot from Slave Labor Graphics, is a quiet, rural drama by writer and artist Jason Lutes, best known for his sprawling historical epic Berlin. This single issue distills his signature humanist storytelling into a compact, atmospheric character study set in a small Mississippi town, capturing a precise moment in a place and the lives that intersect there. It matters as a focused, standalone work from a celebrated cartoonist, offering a glimpse into his range beyond long-form narratives.