Buffalo Noir, Edited by Ed Park & Brigid Hughes
Buffalo Noir Edited by Ed Park & Brigid Hughes
Years in the making, Buffalo Noir is finally ready, and I'm knocked out by the range of modes and moods, the different neighborhoods portrayed and the eras evoked. The talent displayed here could power the First Niagara Center for a Stanley Cup Run. (We can always hope, right?). This book is full of shadows and secrets -- and everywhere around it seems to fall the snow that Buffalonians aren't just used to but are defined by: beautiful, elemental, and sometimes deadly.
Ed Park, from the Introduction
Buffalo had changed. Life was more about corruption and lies, an aesthetic that the best comic authors would admit into their pristine universe. If art could be moral and full of valor, it could also be perverse, debauched, and destructive in the best ways possible. Even the sketch of a corpse's outline, though revealing the artist's sensibility, roots into abundant misery. You can enjoy a sketch of a corpse if you ignore the violence and brutality that preceded it.
Dimitri Anastasopoulos, from "The Bubble Man of Allentown"
Akashic Books, Softcover, 2015
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.