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Parker: Slayground
The award-winning graphic novel series adapting one of crime-fiction&s most famous and hard-boiled characters continues in this beautifully illustrated and stylized masterpiece Parker whose getaway car crashes after a heist manages to elude capture with his loot by breaking into an amusement park that is closed for the winter But his presence does not go unnoticed — a pair of cops observed the job and its aftermath But rather than pursue their suspect they decide to go into business for themselves with the help of some "business associates" From then on it&s a game of cat and mouse one played out through the closed rides of the abandoned carnival a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse Winner of the 2014 Eisner Awards for Best Adaptation from Another Medium and Best
Lettering and includes the Eisner Award-winning short story "The Seventh"!About the AuthorRichard Stark is the most famous pseudonym of world-renowned author Donald Westlake (1933-2008) In 1962 he created the master thief Parker and began a series of novels that have been recognized as seminal works of crime fiction Several of Westlake’s books have been adapted by Hollywood and Westlake’s adaptation of The Grifters earned him an Academy Award nomination for best motion picture screenplay Westlake has won numerous awards for his fiction and in 1993 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master the highest honor bestowed by that prestigious society Darwyn Cooke (1962-2015) was a graphic designer and animator who turned his attention toward cartooning in the
late nineties Known primarily for his work on the DC line of superheroes Cooke always had an affinity for crime fiction and has often cited the Parker books as a great source of creative inspiration Cooke has won multiple Eisner Harvey and Shuster awards as well as the National Cartoonist Society’s Best Series award In 2008 Cooke was Emmy-nominated for the animated adaptation of his magnum opus DC The New Frontier
Lettering and includes the Eisner Award-winning short story "The Seventh"!About the AuthorRichard Stark is the most famous pseudonym of world-renowned author Donald Westlake (1933-2008) In 1962 he created the master thief Parker and began a series of novels that have been recognized as seminal works of crime fiction Several of Westlake’s books have been adapted by Hollywood and Westlake’s adaptation of The Grifters earned him an Academy Award nomination for best motion picture screenplay Westlake has won numerous awards for his fiction and in 1993 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master the highest honor bestowed by that prestigious society Darwyn Cooke (1962-2015) was a graphic designer and animator who turned his attention toward cartooning in the
late nineties Known primarily for his work on the DC line of superheroes Cooke always had an affinity for crime fiction and has often cited the Parker books as a great source of creative inspiration Cooke has won multiple Eisner Harvey and Shuster awards as well as the National Cartoonist Society’s Best Series award In 2008 Cooke was Emmy-nominated for the animated adaptation of his magnum opus DC The New Frontier
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