Chandler
Created by Jim Steranko

CHANDLER was the Manhattan private detective hero of comic-meister supreme Jim Steranko's hommage to the hardboiled private eye heroes created by Hammett, Whitfield, Gardner, Williams and of course, Chandler himself. One of the very first American "graphic novels," this black-and-white130-page digest pulp edition originally appeared in the seventies, for like a buck or something. It's now very hard to find, very collectible....

Fantastic artwork, reminiscent of all those old RKO and Warner Bros. crime flicks, and a stunningly innovative layout that added, not subtracted, to the dynamics of the story, make this one of the most visually stunning of all American graphic novels.

THE BUZZ

• The latest news, courtesy of Steranko fan Tony Robertson, is that Dark Horse Comics will be publishing a revised version of Red Tide in December 1999. Steranko is revamping the art and text to make it more hardboiled, as he felt he was restricted by the publisher in the original edition.

UNDER OATH

• "More than twenty years after its publication, it still stands as the ne plus ultra..of noir graphic novels" (from Steranko: Graphic Prince of Darkness by Peter DePree & J. David Spurlock)

GRAPHIC NOVEL

• RED TIDE
  (AKA Chandler)
  (1976, Fiction Illustrated No. 3)
  123 pages
  Written and illustrated by Jim Steranko
  Introduction by Joe Gores

RELATED LINKS

• The Art of James Steranko
  Tony Robertson's Steranko tribute site.

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