The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry

Description

As a child, Charlie Rizzo had been told that his father lost his vision in a hunting accident. It wasn't until Charlie found himself in a jail cell for his petty crimes that he learned the truth. Matt Rizzo was blinded by a shotgun blast to the face while working for the mob. Just a teenager and newly blind, he began his bleak new life at Statesville Prison. It was there that his life and very soul were saved by one of America's most notorious killers: Nathan Leopold. From David Carlson and Landis Blair comes a moving biography of a remarkable man whose journey from despair to enlightenment mirrored the great works of western literature that ultimately saved him.

David Carlson has been a filmmaker, musician, car salesman, and experience designer, and is the co-founder of Opera-Matic, a non-profit street opera company in Chicago. The Hunting Accident is his first book. Landis Blair is a pen and ink illustrator, known in the independent comic scene for his cross-hatched drawings and delightfully morbid picture books. He is currently based out of Los Angeles, California, where he is illustrating a forthcoming book on death as well as several stories of his own. landisblair.com

A Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 In The Hunting Accident, light comes from darkness, crime leads to redemption, and killers save lives. It'll probably be a movie or Netflix show in a couple years, but for now, it's a damn great comic book. --GQ The subtitle barely captures the scope of this ambitious debut graphic novel, a mix of biography, history, social commentary, literary analysis, and more...Blair's exceptional pen-and-ink work, which mixes the tangible world with the psychological, brings all the strands together seamlessly and powerfully. --Publishers Weekly, starred review A true story epic in scope and arrestingly told. --Booklist, starred review