Charles Burns' Sugar Skull (2014)

New York City; Pantheon (book, comic, 1st), 2014.
12" x 9" x 0.5", unpaginated, 1st hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 976-0-307-90790-5.

Sugar Skull  by Charles Burns, the third part of a graphic novel trilogy including X'ed Out and The Hive. Published by Pantheon (2014) in 2014.

This is Burroughs-referencing, with a drawing of Burroughs both in the text and endpapers, with a character named "Johnny 23", and, perhaps, the cat at the end of the book.