In order to prevent his son from going down the same dark path he did, a blind poet must tell his son about his secret life as a mobster.
"The Hunting Accident" is the true life story of a Chicago gangster who is blinded during a shootout and is sent to Stateville Prison where he learns to navigate life under the tutelage of real life thrill killer Nathan Leopold.
The title page for the graphic novel is a pretty good depiction of springtime in Chicago.
#TheHuntingAccident #graphicnovel #snow #chicago #illustration #prison #statevilleprison
“Nathan Leopold devoted his time in prison to service. He reorganized the prison library, he participated in an experimental test of a new malaria drug as both a lab tech and a lab rat (the latter at some risk to himself), and when a young Italian man arrived at Stateville newly blind after a mishap during his last hold-up, Leopold learned Braille so he could teach the man to read. He expanded the course offerings at the Stateville prison school by writing stacks of new lesson plans and grading the papers himself.” - Helen Andrews
Illustrator Landis Blair started a Twitter page called Hey Unicycle! He’s an avid unicycler and get comments everyday from people he passes by. Check him out on Twitter! https://mobile.twitter.com/heyunicycle
“Hey Leopold. How many circles of hell does this guy go through?”
“Dante? The Divine Comedy has fourteen thousand, two hundred thirty three lines, which are divided into three canticas. Most scholars would agree that the first two cantos function as a prologue to the entire epic…”
“…”
“There are nine circles of hell in the Inferno.”
“So what’s next?”
“Violence.”
“All of a sudden I got an urge to read this book! Where can I get a copy?”
