Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an
Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from
the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America,
Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My
Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic
strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the
likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder,
and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill
My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated
families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking
private detective.
As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control
teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her
mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon
after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her
husband s best friend an over-the-hill and perpetually soused
private eye Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is
drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a
decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from
the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the
South Pacific.
Along with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a
loner heroine, Kill My Mother features a fighter turned tap dancer,
a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping
cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star
with a mind-boggling secret. Culminating in a U.S.O. tour on a
war-torn Pacific island, this disparate band of old enemies
congregate to settle scores.
In a drawing style derived from Steve Canyon and The Spirit,
Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright,
and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world
where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and
betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy,
fast-moving, and funny, Kill My Mother is a trip to
Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir-graphic novel like the movies
they don t make anymore."
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