Sammy Harkham Works As If Already Dead
Dedicated fans of Sammy Harkham have been reading versions of his debut graphic novel, Blood of the Virgin, for nearly a decade. Everything Together, the award-winning collection of Harkham’s early stories and strips, won a variety of industry awards in 2012, and in the years since he’s been the unspoken young cartoonist to watch. Between Crickets, his long-running solo comic, and Kramers Ergot, the premier alt-comics anthology of the 2000s, Harkham has built a career in making comics on his own terms, workshopping his first novel-length work chapter by chapter with his most dedicated, small-press-reading fans.
out today from Pantheon, seamlessly translates what made Harkham’s short work click—the genre-mash ups, the humor, the improvisational page design—into what fans already know will be one of the decade’s biggest graphic novels. Following an Iraqi-Jewish film editor in the transformative era of 1970s Hollywood, Harkham digs
