Toxic Gumbo (DC/Vertigo, 1998)

Legendary post-punk performance artist Lydia Lunch teams with artist Ted McKeever in this Vertigo one-shot. An outcast Cajun woman adept in the dark art of "swamp magic" travels into the toxic stew of the Louisiana Bayou, searching for adventure, wisdom and a safe haven. But her hallucinatory voyage of self-discovery yields a gruesome truth: in a poisoned world, purity isn't necessarily a virtue.

Written by Lydia Lunch. Art and painted cover by Ted McKeever.