Comics and True Crime: A Conversation with Kelly Sue DeConnick

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/

Check out Dark Horse Comics here: https://www.darkhorse.com/

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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