| The Puma Blues | |
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.jpg) Cover of The Puma Blues, number one | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Aardvark One International, Mirage Studios, Dover Comics & Graphic Novels |
| Format | limited series |
| Publication date | 1986–1989, 2015 |
| No. of issues | 23, plus one minicomic, Collected Hardcover with new conclusion |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Stephen Murphy |
| Artist(s) | Michael Zulli |
The Puma Blues is a comic book written by Stephen Murphy and drawn by Michael Zulli. It ran from June 1986 to early 1989, stretching over 23 regular issues and a single "half-issue" minicomic. In 2015 it was re-issued in a collected edition by Dover Comics & Graphic Novels with a new 40-page conclusion by Murphy and Zulli.
Published first by Aardvark One International and later by Mirage Studios, the story is set around the millennium and follows Gavia Immer, a governmental fauna agent (aka game warden), as he goes through an existential dilemma while watching videos his father left for him after his death.
The comic book's detailed artwork by Michael Zulli, which focused primarily on wildlife and nature, was superposed to a loose narrative with a druggy, dreamy, new age apocalyptic atmosphere. This de-structuralizing of the main narrative increased dramatically in later issues, with the second half of the series often taking the form of illustrated prose poetry within an associative narrative.