by Neil Gaiman
First published 1998
A young boy's innocent visit to his father's osteopath takes a dark turn. The doctor's seedy stories of his days working for Al Capone's gang haunt the boy's imagination. As the doctor's memories bleed into the boy's own, the line between reality and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred. This unsettling graphic novel explores the power of storytelling to both illuminate and distort our understanding of the past.
Genres: historical-fiction, mystery, graphic-novels, comics
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: blurred-reality, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Chicago (Ill.), England
48 pages · Paperback · Dark Horse
Content warnings: violence