A novel by John Dermot Woods
October 21, 2014 6 x 8 259 Pages 978-1-56689-371-8
A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.
The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafuseach with a half-page illustration by the authorthat tells the story of a couple who spends a year in Baltimore in search of their respective siblings, who were abducted decades earlier as young children.
About the Author
John Dermot Woods is a writer and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of a collection of comics, Activities (Publishing Genius, 2013), and two previous illustrated novels, No One Told Me I Was Going to Disappear (with J.A. Tyler) and The Complete Collection of people, places & things. He and Lincoln Michel created the funny comic strip, Animals in Midlife Crises, for The Rumpus. He is a professor of English at Nassau Community College.