Raw, Boiled & Cooked: Comics On The VergeThis book showcases some of the most important comics and comic themed art being created today. Inspired by Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking comic anthology Raw, with all the artists either former Raw contributors or fans, the art here runs the gamut from surprising to shocking to surreally beautiful.

photos by Riccardo Vezzosi

In these comics

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he meets someone who leaves

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Gen acts with love and compassion

whose work has been translated into five languages

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he's also a pawn in some very twisted power games

A classic quest by a witch and a dwarf to save the Land of Fa

" in which he drew faces matched with mathematical formulas and focused on differences between people and cultures