Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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Eddie is portrayed as a bumbling fool at times, but the author and artist show he might have a much more sinister side, which I 100% believe. Despite this, Eddie develops an unhealthy attachment to his mother, believing all other women are harlots. For the benefit of those comics readers and Eric Powell fans who’ve never heard of Harold Schechter, rest assured that this is the ultimate possible creative true-crime collaboration. 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).

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? - The Comics Journal

I’ve always adored Powell’s skill as an artist, but nothing prepared me for what he and Schechter accomplish here. But under the Wisconsin moon, the horror inside the Gein home is presented in horrifying, unembellished detail. Throwing up is something we may want to do while reading Professor Harold Schechter and Eric Powell’s graphic novel.Deviant, my book about Gein (and my first foray into the true crime genre) was written pre-Internet, so I had to do a good deal of digging in archives, libraries, courthouses, etc.

New Graphic Novel Peels Back The Story Of Infamous Wisconsin

In Chapter 1, Hitchcock tells a journalist that thinking that a killer has been inspired by a work of art does not mean much: it is the evil that already dwells inside that person that matters.

The early mention of Psycho and the inclusion of it (and other well known serial killer fiction) essentially bookend this ugly chunk of Wisconsin history. Unchecked for a dozen years, Gein committed at least two murders and uncounted grave robbings, in which he then used the women’s skins to make himself a skin suit, facemasks, and other ghastly creations.