Crime Comics for One and All (Except Cozy Fans, regrettably)!
If you’re all caught up with the big-name crime comics like Scalped and Criminal, indulge the Nerd of Noir while he slams some more awesome down on your TBR pile. He’s got three recs for you that cover three different subgenres of crime fiction. Yeah, it’s a tall order, but he’s serving it up.
Read more about the Nerd’s crime-comic special after the jump…
West Coast Blues by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette review
Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist who wrote 10 novels. He is held in the highest possible regard by his English-speaking audience. To date only two of his novels have been translated. Let me say that again in the off chance that, among my limited readership, a publisher is reading this. Only. Two. Books. To say that crime readers who love the full dark style want more Manchette would be a gross understatement. Or, as Duane Swierczynski so aptly put it on Twitter not too long ago, “Dear God: Please have someone translate more Jean-Patrick Manchette novels.”
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The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book by Joe Daly review
The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book features two full-length stories, “The Leaking Cello Case” and “John Wesley Harding.” Both stories start off in the every day then morph into oddball mysteries that never go quite where you expect them to. As odd as some of the capers and misadventures getm they are always conveyed with a kind of casual, deadpan poker face that manages to make them all the more believable.
Book Review – Low Moon by Jason
Norwegian comics artist Jason’s newest collection of five tales is a bold, inventive and at time brilliant leap forward in comics storytelling. If you aren’t hip to Jason yet then this collection presents the perfect opportunity.
Check it out…
