Today, *The Murder Sheet *interviews Kelly Sue DeConnick, an award-winning comic book writer. Her latest book *FML *deals with plenty of themes around true crime, centering a cartoonist out of Portland, Oregon with an obsession for gory podcasts. We'll talk with Kelly Sue about true crime, art, and why we all seek out disturbing stories.
Preorder FML at your local comic shop, which you can find at Comic Shop Locator: https://www.comicshoplocator.com/)
Learn more about FML here: https://www.fmlcomix.com/
Check out the details on FML Issue #1 (along with pre-order links): https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3013-235/FML-1)
Here's the announcement about FML and pre-order links: https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/4147/kelly-sue-deconnick-and-david-lopez-return-to-crea)
Learn more about FML here: https://www.darkhorse.com/Search/fml)
Find your local comic book shop by going to the Comic Shop Locator here: https://www.comicshoplocator.com/)
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Buy Wonder Woman: Historia: The Amazons here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wonder-woman-historia-the-amazons-kelly-sue-deconnick/19695715?ean=9781779521354
Here are some books that came up during our conversation:
Buy Mia Zapata and the Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution by Steve Moriarty here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/art-rock-and-revolution-the-story-of-the-gits/19663701?ean=9781627311502
Buy the The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ten-cent-plague-the-great-comic-book-scare-and-how-it-changed-america-david-hajdu/10092241?ean=9780312428235
Buy *Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders *by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/helter-skelter-the-true-story-of-the-manson-murders-curt-gentry/7327756?ean=9780393322231
Check out Maggie Estep’s work here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/maggie-estep)
Check out Kimberle Crenshaw’s work here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/kimberle-crenshaw)
Buy* Ice Haven* by Daniel Clowes here or wherever you get your comics: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31921083673&dest=usa&ref_=ps_ggl_18382194370&cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade0to10-_-product_id=COM9780375423321USED-_-keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAjwlbu2BhA3EiwA3yXyu5tDVNTTThQU5QdohYkZ89Ef-qKEMyHoT-2UdWkWhi6E3YjQ1rAn7hoClnwQAvD_BwE
Listen to The Murder Sheet’s recent episode with Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook Podcast here: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/d7a42e66-7f75-4a20-bf62-2dfcf7cbff84
Check out works by and about the photographer Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, here: https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=weegee)
The Los Angeles Kirby Vision exhibition is no longer running out but definitely check out Jack Kirby’s work here: https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=jack+kirby
Check out Matt Fraction’s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? here: https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-2019/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-who-killed-jimmy-olsen)
Check out Ed Brubaker’s Criminal series here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/ed-brubaker
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