Homicide: The Graphic Novel, Part Two

David Simon

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Homicide, the celebrated true crime book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned as a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. This thrilling second volume concludes the saga.

A woman is stabbed and left to die in her bedroom. A taxi cab driver is killed for a handful of jewelry. A man is gunned down over a debt of $8. As the board fills with red ink, the pressure rises. All the while, Detective Pellegrini is haunted by the murder of eleven-year-old Latonya Wallace, a case that is getting colder by the day.

Originally published in 1991, Simon's Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show Homicide: Life on the Streets and inspired HBO's The Wire. Now, this true-crime classic is reenvisioned as a gritty two-part graphic novel series.

Book Details

Publisher: First Second
Publish Date: Dec 5th, 2023
Pages: 400
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.29in - 6.35in - 1.13in - 2.26lb
EAN: 9781250624635
Categories: • Crime & Mystery• Nonfiction - History• Forensic Science

About the Author

Squarzoni, Philippe: - Philippe Squarzoni spent most of his childhood in Ardèche and the island of Réunion, France. He has traveled internationally to participate in several humanitarian and anti-war campaigns. The author of many political graphic novels, his work includes Garduno, en temps de paix, Zapata, en temps de guerre, Dol, Un après-midi un peu couvert, and Saison brune, which received the Jury Prize at the Festival de Lyon and the Prix Léon de Rosen from the Académie française for its contribution to environmental awareness. Saison brune was later published in English as Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science.

Simon, David: - David Simon is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. A former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, he is the creator of the celebrated HBO series The Wire, which depicts the political and socioeconomic fissures in an American city. His other television credits include the NBC drama Homicide and HBO's The Corner, Generation Kill, Treme, Show Me A Hero, The Deuce, and The Plot Against America. The author of two books of narrative nonfiction, "Homicide" and "The Corner," Simon is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.

Praise for this book

"A stark, arresting graphic novel that weds Simon's account of facts and police personalities (alongside ample use of the quoted dialogue he preserved as well as his own descriptive prose) to visual and storytelling techniques somewhat reminiscent of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Andreyko's Torso: an unflinching depiction of a city at its darkest, conveyed in deep shadows and shades of gray." --Popverse

"The panels are of particular interest, with a single perspective often being broken across multiple panels; while in some graphic novels this can make it hard to follow the narrative, Squarzoni succeeds in keeping it easy to decipher." --Booklist