Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, De Powell, Eric. Editorial Albatross Funnybooks, Tapa Dura En Inglés, 2021

Descripción

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? es una exploración profunda de la familia Gein y lo que llevó a la creación del necrófilo que atormentó los sueños de la América de los años 50 e inspiró películas como Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre y The Silence of the Lambs. Investigado meticulosamente e ilustrado, el novelista gráfico Harold Schechter y Eric Powell, ganador de cinco premios Eisner, presentan la historia de uno de los asesinos en serie más notoriamente perturbados en la historia estadounidense. Esta novela gráfica de crimen real lleva la historia de Gein fuera del ámbito de la explotación y ofrece al lector una dramatización basada en hechos de estos trágicos, psicóticos y desgarradores eventos. Porque, en este caso, la verdad no necesita exageración para ser horripilante.

"It is fantastic! Not only is Eric Powell's art on point, but Harold Schechter introduces some new ideas about Ed Gein that have never been heard." - THE LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT

“A natural choice for true-crime fans.” BOOKLIST

“As extensively researched as the Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is a masterpiece of the form, standing as the best possible dramatization of Ed Gein's tale in any medium.” BLOODY DISGUSTING

“This is a new true crime comics essential.” SYFY WIRE

Nightmarish. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Eric Powell and Harold Schechter team up to tell the true story of Ed Gein in a unique format for true crime. John Carpenter (Director of Halloween, The Thing)

A brand new, and one of a kind perspective on one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history. SCREENRANT

Incredibly horrific. COMICS BEAT

True-crime writer Schechter teams up with acclaimed comic-book artist Powell in this thoroughly researched account of Ed Gein, the notorious murderer who inspired the horror icon Norman Bates (and others). Schechter and Powell start there, with a portly Alfred Hitchcock setting the scene. Then, they cover Gein's childhood under the thumb of his puritanical, misogynistic, and violently oppressive mother; the investigation into his crimes; and the trial that led to his lifelong incarceration. Powell's soft, realistic art, in a green-tinged grayscale recalling the aesthetic quality of Hitchcock's black-and-white films, renders faces beautifully, keeping them distinct and recognizable even as they age over the decades-long timeframe of the book, and though there's plenty of gruesomeness, he only toes the line of luridness (an inevitability, for sure, in any book about Gein). While Schechter and Powell necessarily spend plenty of time on Gein, they don't dwell sensationally on the horrors of his crimes but turn their attention to his impact not only on the culture but, importantly, on the lives of his neighbors.