Hyperallergic: Comics show up as a motif throughout Criminal. I spoke to Brubaker over email about the book, Criminal as a whole, and the new Amazon miniseries Too Old to Die Young, which he wrote alongside Halley Gross and director Nicolas Winding Refn. The book was of course timed to release right ahead of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Intermingling with this plot are numerous references to the history of comics and fandom, particularly how poorly comic book writers and artists have been treated by the companies they worked for. The story follows a onetime comic book artist escorting his washed-up mentor through a comics convention, as it slowly unfolds that the old man has some less-than-legal adventures planned. A recent two-issue arc, Bad Weekend, has now been published as a standalone own graphic novel. Each several-issue arc of the series is self-contained, telling a different crime story within the same shared world, with certain characters crossing over between them. Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’s comic book series Criminalhas won scads of accolades since it started in 2006. Bad Weekend (cover art by Sean Phillips, courtesy Image Comics)
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