Visual Crime

Author: Jerry Moriarty

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

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Summary

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.

Critic Reviews

“"Jerry's comics pages are composed with the elegant precision of an Edward Hopper painting. "”

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

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.