Graphic Novels
Crime Does Pay! Scarface has nothing on Cameron Quinn, a ruthless upstart out to make a name for himself in this tale of crime and destiny from critically acclaimed mystery novelist Gary Phillips (HIGH HAND, BANGERS)! Phillips shines a harsh light on the action and drama of the L.A. underworld with this inner-city spin on THE SOPRANOS! Snitch on your friend. Stay out of jail. And buy this book! A potent mix of AMERICAN GANGSTER and THE WIRE.
Acclaimed crime novelist Gary Phillips (THE JOOK, Vertigo’s ANGELTOWN and COWBOYS) returns to BOOM! with a new brand of crime! High finance and low-down greed rear their ugly heads as Jeff Sinclair, the premiere laundryman in San Francisco -- and we’re not talkin’ wrinkled jeans and dirty gym socks -- is unwillingly pulled into a dangerous gig laundering $25 million in stolen casino skim money. Forced to truly consider his line of work and the evil that he facilitates, Jeff must find a way to clean the cash and wash away his own sins. A grounded, gritty look at the world of money laundering, THE RINSE is a modern crime classic in the making!
Los Angeles is the birthplace of noir ― because of the brighter the sunshine, the deeper the shadows, and the more deadly the mischief that goes on in the dark. Angeltown: The Nate Hollis Investigations reprints the original Vertigo mini-series in glorious black & white ― the critically praised sequential mystery featuring the cool, tough private eye's frenzied search in the shadows for a pro hoopster wanted for murder in "Baller." Additionally, Gary Phillips ( Operator 5 ), has penned two, original, illustrated prose short stories for this volume: "Hollywood Killer," wherein superhero pretenders prowling Hollywood Boulevard for tips are getting bumped off, and "King Cow," about cattle, lowriders, and babes with nazi tattoos.
Presented by iPulpFiction.com Louis Trent is a high rolling hit-man plucked from Hell only if he kills for Heaven. An anonymous city bureaucrat, The Reclaimer , senses what evil lurks via emanations from tenement walls. In the 1970s, Onyx Adams , a tough, kung fu'ing Afro-wearing female private eye teams with a so-called b'wana devil, the Ghost Wolf , to thwart one of history's greatest villains back from the dead. The Silencer is a Vietnam vet who returns home but the war goes on when a bomb injures him and kills the woman he loves. A seeming sellout Uncle Tom agent provocateur, American Black , reveals other plans. A weed smoking, easygoing inner city teen working in an old folks' home inherits amazing powers and responsibilities from WWII-era heroine Victory Angel as Kidd Vee ; and several of the heroes team up in the past and present to prevent a climate calamity by a fanatical billionaire. In this anthology of 10 action-packed prose stories, veteran crime and mystery fictioneer and graphic novelist Gary Phillips (author of Big Water , Warlord of Willow Ridge , and co-editor of the acclaimed Black Pulp anthology) offers his rip-roaring revisionist take on the superhero genre The Watchman meets Manchild in the Promised Land . As a special to this collection, Phillips has written an original outing bringing together several of these characters in one adventure for the first time ever. Inside you'll find tales of: American Black The Envoy Ghost Wolf Kidd Vee Onyx Adams The Reclaimer The Silencer Terror Flame Victory Angel
In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan—with jazz, the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients—three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the price. Cliff Murphy is matinee handsome, a light-skinned, straight-haired black man and a comics artist known for his glamour girl art. He’s black uptown and white downtown, and he has an eye for the ladies, and they for him—including his boss’ wife, who knows Cliff’s creation, the Phantom Avenger, is about to be stolen from him. Though Stephaney “Stef” Rawls has her own romance-adventure strip for the largest black newspaper, she still has to work brutal hours as a maid to make ends meet. When she gets a lucrative offer to write and draw a “Negroes must reject agitation” flyer for the FBI, can she pass up the opportunity? Then there’s Oliver “Ollie” Jefferson, a decorated Korean War vet who writes and draws editorial cartoons under the pseudonym Attucks, for the daily Red newspaper The Struggle . But when a cop beats him down while walking his pregnant Korean wife-to-be home one night, Ollie becomes a symbol of oppression and the streets threaten to explode. These three friends will be tested and tried, will work in solidarity, and, just maybe, betray each other, in this explosive graphic novel—with prose by crime fiction author Gary Phillips and images by acclaimed artist-writer Dale Berry.