Beat It, Rufus

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

From the author of Fante Bukowski and Joseph Smith and the Mormons, a hysterical character comedy about an aging rock-god-in-his-own-mind forced to face the music. A CBR Top Comic of 2025 Rufus Baxter is an aging, professionally unemployed loser, desperately — delusionally — hanging on to his 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining arenas, despite so much evidence to the contrary (like audience members ducking when he tosses promo t-shirts at an open-mic night). The rest of his bandmates in Fun