All the pre-interview questions you gave me are all very interesting and were a good outline for where to go, I think.Īnnie Murphy: All right then: let's start with the biggie!
Rick Geary: Well, I'm ready for anything you might want to throw at me. A dream come true, the following is a result of those conversations. I wanted to know what drove him to his genre and propelled him towards the completion of so many epic projects. I'd heard Geary was moving into the realm of Kickstarter-funded publishing and I wanted to find out what the experience was like for someone who was already a seasonally published pro. To my delight, over the course of two phone conversations earlier this year, I finally got my chance to pick the brain of this real life, modern-day Arthur Conan Doyle.
I've often stared at his pictures and wondered at the process of the artist who-while obviously similarly obsessed with crime-managed to present the meticulously documented series of murders and crimes in a non-exploitative, visually appealing way a mystery in and of itself. Geary, being the voraciously productive and prolific artist/author that he is, continued to deliver: moving through time into his Treasury of Twentieth-Century Murder series, and adding several comics biographies to the mix. I tore through everything I could find at the library. So upon finding Geary's Treasury of Victorian Murder series of graphics (published by ComicsLit, an imprint of NBM), I was hooked. I am a huge fan of historical comics and research-based work in general and while I avoid gore and horror in the movies, book-wise I am kind of a true crime buff. I stumbled onto the work of cartoonist Rick Geary by accident in an old attic in Northeast Portland. Features “I Like Questions More than Answers”: A Conversation with Rick Geary
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