Visual Crime

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SKU: 9781683964087
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By Jerry Moriarty

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Summary

Visual Crime follows Rotart Sulli, a painter who illustrates crime fiction and encounters peculiar demands with each assignment, such as staying confined in a hotel room until completion or displaying his work in a public window. The graphic novel combines two interconnected crime stories with a collection of single-page shorts, blending Hopperesque paintings and raw pen-and-ink art to portray the solitary artist navigating a mysterious, uncertain world.
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This graphic novel suits readers who appreciate literary crime stories, graphic art with a painterly style, and those interested in the artistic process and atmospheric storytelling.

This graphic novel is Jerry Moriarty's tribute to fine artists who make their living in commercial art.

Description

In the first of two stories that comprise Visual Crime, Rotart Sulli, a painter who illustrates crime fiction, gets a peculiar requirement along with an assignment: he is to stay at Hotel Ace in room 611 until his illustration is finished.

In the book's second story, Sulli is once again hired to illustrate a crime story; and once again, he's told to place the finished work "in your back window - it will be seen."

Visual Crime also collects a dozen short stories occupying a single page, all illustrated by "Sulli's" Hopperesque paintings, which alternate with Moriarty's rough-hewn, proletarian pen-and-ink panels. It's a portrait of the artist working alone in a mysterious and uncertain world, creating stunning images that transcend the melodramatic stories they illustrate.

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Jerry's comics pages are composed with the elegant precision of an Edward Hopper painting. – Art Spiegelman

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683964087

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 96 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 264.0mm

Height: 338.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 96

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Adult Graphic Novels Fiction Graphic Novels Jerry Moriarty

About the Author

Jerry Moriarty is a painter and cartoonist (self-described as a "paintoonist") from New York. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt institute, and his best known work in cartooning is the comic Jack Survives. He taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 50 years.