FRITZ LANG'S M GRAPHIC NOVEL. Illustrated by JON J MUTH. V3
GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED BOOK (1990)
THIS VERSION IS LONG OUT OF PRINT.
Published by Eclipse Comics.
This is the hard to find first printing of the original M volume with lavishly painted illustrations by artist JON J MUTH.
This is the RARE original 1990 published version of the Graphic Novel, and was never sold in any mass market retail outlets. It was only available to purchase through comic book specialty shops.
Product Description
Behind every great suspense thriller lurks the shadow of M. In Fritz Lang's first sound film from 1931, Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as a serial killer--a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial by the forces of the Berlin underworld.
In 1990, a young painter, Jon J Muth, continued his rise in the comic book industry by adapting the story of M into a four-issue comic book miniseries. Muth's photorealistic illustrations paved the way for the acceptance of painted comics, influencing a generation of artists who followed him. He hewed closely to Lang's original German script, employing a painterly, photorealistic style that evoked the grainy, tinted footage of early talkies. The result, more influential than popular in an era of rampant speculation and chromium covers, was undeniably gorgeous.
Lang's story—an unidentified serial killer stalks children in a small German city—is simple but compelling, allowing Muth's masterful technique to shine through. The watercolors are primarily sepia-toned, with occasional splashes of color for emphasis, giving the project a surreal, dreamlike quality that serves to heighten suspense. Muth's layouts are excellent, creating mise-en-scènes that evoke Lang without copying him, and his figures' acting (body language and facial expressions) also serves both story and mood.
Young children are being killed by a brutal murderer. The police can’t figure out who it is. Mobsters are perplexed. Unions are in a panic. A chain reaction has begun with desperation and suspicion making an entire city suspicious of every shadow, every person.
Jon Muth has put together a murder mystery of mood and suspense that captures the feel of Fritz Lang’s classic 1931 German motion picture.