Alack Sinner: The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence collects eleven stories, including “Talkin’ with Joe,” “The Webster Case,” “The Fillmore Case,” “Viet Blues,” “Life Ain’t a Comic Book, Baby,” “Twinkle, Twinkle,” and “Dark City.”Alack Sinner is an international bestseller and between them Muñoz and Sampayo are winners of Europe’s top comics awards.. The first of two volumes that present for the first time in English the complete Alack Sinner comics by the Argentine-born team of artist José Muñoz and writer Carlos Sampayo. For this collection, Muñoz has

Sampayo met Muñoz in Spain after he fled from the military junta. Carlos Sampayo is an Argentine writer best known for his work in comics, particularly in collaboration with artist José Muñoz. Sampayo's work is unusually mature for the world of comics, because of its grimness. Sampayo also worked with Oscar Zarate, Jorge Schiaffino and Solano López. Thus the

David Swan said One of the Most Influential Comic Artists. I first became aware of José Muñoz after the infamous “swiping” incident involving Keith Giffen. Giffen had transformed his art style in the 1980’s to a very stylized, impressionist look which I personally found very appealing. In 1986, an article in The Comics Journal accused Giffen of copying Muñoz art and even included some side-by-s. Patrick G. Phillips said Quite possibly the best crime comics ever made. "Alack Sinner" is often cited as one of the best comics ever produced, and quite frankly, it easily lives up to the hype. It is a pitch black noir inventory of a NYC where little justice is to be found. The lead character, the titular Alack Sinner, is a private investigator who was frozen out of the NYPD for having the guts to actually do his job in a city saturated with cor. Brandon said Horrible Print Quality Great Content. Five stars for content but 1 star for quality. This is a glorified D.C. Showcase. Paper quality is cheap and they def cut cost to try and earn more. They could of done a lot better with quality. Especially being that they're doing an incredible job with the Corto Series

The expressionistic black and white drawing style of José Muñoz is the perfect form for these stories, which are not depressing because there's always some way out of the misery.Born in 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a child José Muñoz manifested a great passion for design, and a particular interest in the world of comics. About the AuthorCarlos Sampayo is an Argentine writer best known for his work in comics, particularly in collaboration with artist José Muñoz.  The writer Carlos Sampayo is best known for the disturbing st