Posted by Gary Deane
on 10/15/2009, 11:21 am
154.5.39.160 | Message modified by user Gary Deane 10/15/2009, 11:54 am
There's been a release over the past couple of years of some prime pulp in graphic novel form including most recently Brian Azzarello's 'Filthy Rich'(below).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-1015-azzarellooct15,0,6086080,print.story
Also, recommended (as in 'can't live without') are a series of four titles under the banner 'A Criminal Edition' by author Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips. Since published, they've won awards for best new series and best writer and deservedly so.
These are not 'comic books' in any sense but hard noir fiction in graphic form, absent of caricature or contrivance and with introductions by 'straight' practitioners of noir such as Ken Bruen and Tom Fontana, creator of 'Homicide: Life on the Streets and 'OZ'.
I'm looking forward to more.
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