Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

Tenth Fantagraphics Books edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this new edition of Daniel Clowes' classic graphic novel, Clay Loudermilk stumbles into a screening of a bizarre snuff film that wraps him up in a mystery surrounding a series of cult-inspired killings, dubbed 'The Harum Scarum Murders.' The subsequent path Loudermilk's life takes is both a terrifying journey into madness and jaw-dropping tour-de-force of visual imagination fraught with psychosexual and conspiratorial tension. Featuring black & white illustrations throughout.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781683960157
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: Tenth Fantagraphics Books edition
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 492g
Height: 191mm
Width: 279mm
Spine width: 13mm