Margins
2009
First Published
3.29
Average Rating
104
Number of Pages
The biggest names in comics crime fiction assemble here for an anthology of original tales of murder and deceit, presented in black and white! Aided and abetted by some of the most gifted slatherers of thick, black India ink in the field, this gang is headed straight for the bad parts of town, and you're invited along for the ride!
Avg Rating
3.29
Number of Ratings
924
5 STARS
10%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
44%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
2%
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Authors

Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker
Author · 94 books

Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed. In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.

Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips
Author · 17 books
GARY PHILLIPS has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including South Central Noir and the Anthony award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer/co-producer on FX’s Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include One-Shot Harry and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.
Dean Motter
Dean Motter
Author · 4 books

Dean Motter is an illustrator, designer and writer who worked for many years in Toronto, Canada, New York City, and Atlanta. Motter is best known as the creator and designer of Mister X, one of the most influential "new-wave" comics of the 1980s. Dean then took up the Creative Services Art Director's post at Time Warner/DC Comics, where he oversaw the corporate and licensing designs of America’s most beloved comic book characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. In his off-hours he went on to create and design the highly acclaimed, retro-futuristic comic book series, Terminal City—and its sequels, Aerial Graffiti. and Electropolis.

Paul Grist
Paul Grist
Author · 5 books
Paul Grist is a British comic book creator, noted for his hard-boiled police series Kane and his unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff.
Rick Geary
Rick Geary
Author · 16 books

RICK GEARY was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975. He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from Fantagraphics Books. During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The New York Times Book Review. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD, Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, and American Libraries. He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children's books for Marvel. His children’s comic “Society of Horrors” ran in Disney Adventures magazine. He was the artist for the new series of GUMBY Comics, written by Bob Burden, for which they received the 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience. His graphic novels include three adaptations for the Classics Illustrated, and the nine-volume series A Treasury of Victorian Murder for NBM Publishing. The new series A Treasury of 20th Century Murder began in 2008 with “The Lindbergh Child.” His other historically-based graphic novels include Cravan, written with Mike Richardson, and J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography. Rick has received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention (1980) and the Book and Magazine Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society (1994). He and his wife Deborah can be found every year at their table at San Diego’s Comic Con International. In 2007, they moved to the town of Carrizozo, New Mexico. (from http://www.rickgeary.com/bio.html)

M.K. Perker
M.K. Perker
Author · 2 books

Mustafa Kutlukhan Perker (2 Kasım 1972) çizgi roman sanatçısı, karikatürist ve illüstratördür. İlk karikatürü 1988 yılında Gırgır dergisinde yayınlandı. Dıgıl, Hıbır, Leman, Penguen mizah dergilerinde; Sabah, Yeni Yüzyıl, Milliyet, Vatan, Star ve Radikal gazetelerinde çalıştı. 2001 yılında ABD’ye yerleşen Perker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Progressive, MAD ve Heavy Metal gibi yayınlarda çizdi. ABD’de yayınlanmış çizgi romanları arasında Cairo (DC Comics / Vertigo), dört albümlük Air serisi (DC Comics / Vertigo), iki albümlük Todd serisi (Image Comics) ve Insomnia Cafe (Dark Horse) yer alır. Society of Illustrators’ün ilk ve tek türk üyesidir. Çizerliğin yanısıra müzik dergisi Rock Kazanı’nı (1992), çocuk çizgi roman dergisi Pilot’u (1998), aylık mizah dergisi Harakiri’yi (2011) ve tamamını kendi yazıp çizdiği çizgi roman dergisi Türk Mucizesi’ni (2014) yayınlamıştır. 2016 yılında Yelda Cumalıoğlu ile birlikte KaraKarga Yayınlarını kurdu. Halen Hürriyet gazetesinde günlük karikatürlerinin yanısıra Ece karakterini çizmektedir.

Alex de Campi
Alex de Campi
Author · 14 books
Alex de Campi is a New York-based writer with an extensive backlist of critically-acclaimed graphic novels including Eisner-nominated heist noir Bad Girls (Simon & Schuster) and Twisted Romance (Image Comics). Her most recent book was her debut prose novel The Scottish Boy (Unbound). She lives with her daughter, their cat, and a Deafblind pit bull named Tango.
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