I'm very happy about Ethan Iverson's reaction to both Severance Package and my buddy Sunshine's latest, Savage Night. (And yes, he's right -- there is a Bad Plus reference folded up and tucked away where you probably least expect it. Heh heh heh.)I'm also glad he got over his funnybook phobia and picked up Criminal, Ed Brubaker's brilliant n' nasty crime comic published by Marvel's Icon imprint. All I have to do now is convince him to check out Scalped. And 100 Bullets. And DMZ...
There's also a great bit at the end of the post about my hero Fredric Brown and his mystery writer pal William Campbell Gault, taken from David Laurence Wilson's 1984 L.A. Times piece on Gault:
Gault’s closest friend was Fredric Brown, a frail intellectual who had also started out in Milwaukee. "Fred was the great, innovative one," Gault said. "He had a mind like Einstein and he peddled it for two cents a word."
What a brain whore.
(Photo by Chadwick Ginther. Yes, those are scotch bottles to the left and right of Sunshine's book.)
