The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery #2

The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery — Seven Stories Press

Issue: #2

Here are Teddy Goldenberg’s dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Road Home,” often considered the first hard-boiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win. Plus twenty-three other contributors u...

First appearances: Belle Gunness, Sonny Corleone, Dora Suarez, Father Brown, Tommy Beresford, Mrs. Danvers, Bao Zheng, Maxim de Winter, Noboru Kuroda, Lady Molly, Tuppence Cowley, Rebecca de Winter, Lady Audley, Mrs. de Winter, Railroad Bill

Creators: William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Dame Darcy, Joseba Morales, Andrea Montano, Sonia Leong, Sally Madden, Rachel Smythe, Derek Raymond, Till Lukat, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anton Chekhov, Frank R. Stockton, Teddy Goldenberg, Hila Noam, Baroness Orczy, G.K. Chesterton, ZAVKA, Thomas Harris, Emily Rose Dixon

Characters: Hannibal Lecter, Titus Andronicus, God, John Wilkes Booth, Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, Yama, Mary Todd Lincoln, Cain, Death, Clarice Starling, Belle Gunness, Sonny Corleone, Michael Corleone, Dora Suarez, Father Brown, Tommy Beresford, Mrs. Danvers, Bao Zheng, Josef K.