Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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There are several panels that show this in strange and terrifying ways, but one in particular stands as the perfect image of what Gein’s subconscious may have thought of his mother. Most of us satisfy that primitive part of ourselves by indulging in the vicarious pleasures of things like gory horror films . It’s too bad people like this exist and circumstances in which they become killers exist, but it’s not a bad thing to try to understand them. En ole aina ihan varma mitä makaaberista true crime -genrestä pitäisi ajatella, mutta tulinpa kuitenkin lainanneeksi kirjastosta Harold Schechterin ja Eric Powellin albumin "Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done" (Albatross, 2021). D. A resident of New York City, Schechter is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of the City University of New York.

I have an interest in true crime and was already familiar with Ed Gein and his crimes, but even I was surprised by some things when I was reading this. A brand new, and one of a kind perspective on one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history.

With him, it’s a vibrant, moody miniature, encapsulating everything compelling and absurd about true crime in the stark overcast shadows of a frigid Wisconsin winter. Killers are killers because they are born evil; good luck trying to spot them before they rip your guts open.

Vomit is caused, among the aforementioned act of self harm, by the impossibility of facing a situation that is, by its very constitution, an insult to life – some horrible thing. Sarjakuvapuolelta suosittelisin tämän rinnalle ainakin Derf Backderfin erinomaista Ystäväni Dahmeria ja pienin varauksin myös Jeff Jensenin Green River Killer: A True Detective Storya. But the grim details of the house of horrors he inhabited in tiny, unremarkable Plainfield are what made him one of the country’s most notorious maniacs and led to so many people patterning fictional killers, from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Buffalo Bill, on his story. The only part of the book I didn’t think was that great was the look at how Gein’s community was affected in the immediate aftermath of his arrest. Perhaps Gein could have been helped, or at least, stopped, much sooner, had people been paying attention.

Even if his memory isn’t 100% accurate, we can see that his brother could have had a better effect on him had he not died (or, perhaps, Gein murdered him, although the evidence is inconclusive) when Gein was 37. I don’t think of Gein as monster, certainly not in comparison to sadistic lust-murderers like Albert Fish, John Wayne Gacy, or Ted Bundy.

I don't quite agree with Sam that this book is one of the best graphic works of the year, but it's good, getting at the heart(lessness) of the story, based as it is on the author's original True Crime classic about Gein, now adapted for comics. The detail, and the colouring of greys, white and black perfectly bring this haunting story to life in a way which just wouldn't be possible if it was pure text. One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter, teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein.

Since there are pictures some of the more graphic things Eddie did with the bodies he exhumed are there on the page, not just described.

Sarjakuva alkaa Alfred Hitchcockin haastattelulla, jossa maineikas ohjaaja käsittelee Psyko-elokuvaansa, ja toteaa sen taustalla olevan Robert Blochin romaanin perustuvan tositapahtumiin. Eric Powell and Harold Schechter team up to tell the true story of Ed Gein in a unique format for true crime. You can present facts, photos, first-hand accounts, and primary documents, but the instant you start speculating, you are a storyteller. It’s not enough to excuse his crimes, of course, but it does help because it’s clear that there were things going on in Gein’s brain that he couldn’t deal with.Then suddenly the narrative shifts to the day of his arrest and mostly becomes a sea of captions with a few flashbacks to his crimes tucked in between the endless talking heads of neighbors, authorities, and doctors. Eric has been working in collaboration with acclaimed director David Fincher, Tim Miller, and Blur Studios to bring the Goon to life on the big screen as an animated feature film. But Schechter and Powell don’t show everything, so our imagination takes over, which is never a bad thing, and we make it worse.