Historical Fiction
Ghost Script
2018·144 pages
A satirical graphic novel exploring Hollywood's blacklist era through a ghostly lens.
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A satirical graphic novel exploring Hollywood's blacklist era through a ghostly lens.
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Never has the incomparable Jules Feiffer been more eerily prophetic than in this stunning finale to his best-selling Kill My Mother trilogy. Hollywood is haunted. 1953. Ghosts abound. In particular, the ghost of Detective Sam Hannigan—murdered in Bay City twenty-two years earlier by Addie Perl, the hired assassin who then bought a Hollywood nightclub with her blood money. Among the nightclub’s favored clientele is Sam’s widow, Elsie. Blinded by a Japanese bullet while on a USO tour in the South ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Features a starlet-turned-hooker and recurring sexual themes tied to noir plotting.
Violence & gore
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Noir violence including murder, revenge, and assassination plots.
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Substance use
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Characters frequently booze during plotting and social scenes.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Explores themes of gender fluidity, doubles, and identity disguise.
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on HUAC, Hollywood blacklist, and political persecution.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Depicts murder, revenge, and systemic suffering from blacklisting.
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