
Dr. Werthless (HC): Man Who Studied Murder, The.
From the creative team behind the award-winning Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? comes an examination of one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture, Dr. Fredric Wertham. Reviled by comic book fans as a witch-hunting zealot who stirred up a panic among the parents of America for his own self-promoting purposes, he was also a renowned psychiatrists who, among other accomplishments, opened a clinic in Harlem for disadvantaged African-American patients and played an important role in the desegregation of the nation's schools. Believing that murder could be abolished through a proper understanding of the mental and social roots of criminal violence, he took a genuinely humane approach to some of the most notorious homicidal maniacs of his time, while simultaneously exploiting their stories for his own commercial ends.
Udgivet af Dark Horse 2025
Eric Powell
Eric Powell er en amerikansk tegneserieskaber, der er mest kendt for at skrive og tegne The Goon.
Han debuterede officielt med en historie i bladet Best Cellars i 1995. I 1999 havde The Goon sin debut i bladet The Goon #1, som var det første blad, hvor Powell tegnede og skrev al indholdet. Bladet blev udgivet på forlaget Avatar Press, men Powell var utilfreds med samarbejdet og efter tre blade forlod han forlaget. Han skabte sit eget forlag Albatross Exploding Funny Books, hvor han fortsatte med at udgive serien. I 2003 opdagede Dark Horse Comics The Goon, og Powell tog imod et tilbud fra dem. Dark Horse har siden udgivet den.
Eric Powell har lavet mange forskellige serier. De fleste hører til i en blandet genre, hvor gys, science fiction, crime noir, komedie og tragedier typisk går igen. Han har modtaget adskellige priser for sit arbejde, blandt andet 5 Eisner Awards.
Han har tidligere arbejdet for Marvel Comics og DC Comics. Hans tegneserier udgives nu primært fra forlagene Albatross og Dark Horse, men han har også lavet en serie på Image Comics for nylig. (Ovenstående personbeskrivelse er taget fra ComicWiki under en Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 licens)