| Joe Coleman has spent the last quarter-century purging and embracing his demons through art.
Coleman is obsessed with violence and dementia, particularly in regard to cultural antiheroes and serial killers. Muzzlers, Guzzlers, and Good Yeggs collects the best of his true crime tales.
Muzzlers features five stories: 'You Can't Win,' which adapts the memoir of the same name by Jack Black, the notorious early 20th century con-man, thief, opium addict, convict and author; 'Boxcar Bertha,' which is about the depression-era female hobo who is driven to prostitution, only to be led to salvation by an unwanted pregnancy; 'Carl Panzram, #31614,' which depicts the life of the notorious serial killer and rapist; 'The Final Days of John Paul Knowles,' a.k.a. 'The Final Days of the Boston Strangler,' which is equally a story about Sandy Fawkes, the woman who narrowly escaped being Knowles' seventeenth victim; the last story in the collection is 'The Wages of Sin,' a brief manifesto on human suffering and the people and institutions that perpetuate it (priests, scientists and military, e.g.).
Presented in a handsome, compact format that resembles a Big Little Book... though one strictly for grown-ups! |
