A True History of Violence (and Crimefighting, Politics, and Power)
In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents―from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon―and everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage. From a nascent FBI's headlinegrabbing tracking down of Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly in the 1930s to Hoover's increasingly paranoid post-WWII authorizing of illegal wiretaps, blackmail, and circumvention of Supreme Court decisions, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography provides a special window into the life of an outsized American and a bird'seye view on the twentieth century.

J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography

Geary, Rick

Arts & Photography

Hill and Wang

Trotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twentieth century, and in Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, the renowned comic artist Rick Geary uses his distinct style to depict the stark reality of the man and his times. Trotsky's life becomes a guide to the creation of the Soviet Union, the horrors of World War I, and the establishment of international communism as he, Lenin, and their fellow Bolsheviks rise from persecution and a life underground to the height of political power. Ranging from his boyhood in the Ukraine to his fallout with Stalin and his moonlight romance with Frida Kahlo, Trotsky is a stunning look at one of the twentieth century's most important thinkers and the far-reaching political trends that he launched.

Trotsky: A Graphic Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

In his next volume, Geary takes us out to the wild west and the just opened up prairies of Kansas. Out on a deserted stretch of road linking newly forming towns, a mysterious family stakes a claim and builds an inn for weary visitors. Soon, reports multiply of disappearances around that area. Generally, those who disappear have plenty of cash on them. A delicious tale of a gruesome family fronted by a beguiling lass who led their victims on???

A Treasury of Victorian Murder

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

NBM Publishing

At Home With Rick Geary

Fantagraphics Books

At Home with Rick Geary Collected Stories 1977-85

Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass, 1892 (Treasury of Victorian Murder)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Turtleback

Published by Fantagraphics Books. Copyright by Rick Geary.

Housebound With Rick Geary

Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the Jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary¹s personal take on this story shines an ironic light on the repressive society that spawned such a monster.

Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 (Treasury of Victorian Murder)

History & Criticism

Nbm Pub Co

Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one The famous Lizzie Borden double murder.

The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)

Geary (Borden Tragedy, Jack The Ripper) explores the first assassination of one of our presidents in the hands of an obsessive-compulsive stalker, a deluded loser who thought his action would bring him national glory. In this typically carefully researched and constructed story, Geary parallels the lives of the President and the killer. They have striking similarities. The fascinating element is how one went so wrong while the other rose to so high a post even despite himself. Once again, beyond a mere presentation of facts, the author surreptitiously unpeels for us a bit of our national psyche. "***1/2. Geary brings history to life with his writing. And his art? Finely detailed, but with his own unusual, quirky style." -The Comics Buyer's Guide "First rate. Superb as always" Publishers Weekly "Subtly expressive low-key wit. First-rate historical graphic novel" Booklist ON SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL'S TOP RECOMMENDED LIST.

The Fatal Bullet: The Assassination of President James A. Garfield (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)

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