Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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Gein jäi melkein heti käpälälautaan, mutta hänen tilalleen saapuneet viranomaiset eivät olleet varautuneet siihen mitä he löytäisivät.

You start to get a sense of how the people of Plainview must have felt when that oddball Eddy did what he did. Ja näinhän se tosiaan menee, että edellämainitut teokset eivät olisi koskaan syntyneet ilman Ed Geinin (1906-1984) tekoja. Rating 7: A pretty comprehensive (and therefore deeply disturbing and depressing) history of Ed Gein and his crimes, though the format felt at times unnecessary. Schechter and Powell begin the book with the movie and Hitchcock’s interview about how people should shut the hell up, and then they move to a brief moment when the police open a grave, not expecting to find that Gein had actually moved a body out of it. Gein's crimes are inherently, if disturbingly, fascinating and this work strikes a nice balance in showing you the horror without committing overkill.Also, the authors have a unique take on Gein’s psychosis and seeing their disturbing depiction of his inner thoughts is what really makes this book]. The numerous comments from the townsfolk of Plainfield, Wisconsin, who generally said the same thing: he was a quiet fellow, shocking to discover, etc. But the readers spoke and the Goon quickly became an indy hit and picked up a diehard cult following. He murdered two women (though it’s likely the number is much higher) and robbed the graves of several other recently-deceased elderly women so that he could flay the corpses, turn the skin to turn into clothes and wear it so that he could “be” a woman/his mother. While Schechter and Powell necessarily spend plenty of time on Gein, they don't dwell sensationally on the horrors of his crimes but turn their attention to his impact not only on the culture but, importantly, on the lives of his neighbors.

His Wisconsin isn’t the wholesome land of the Packers and the Dells; it’s the nightmare refuge of Black River Falls, the terrain of madness and uncertainty depicted in Michael Lesy’s groundbreaking Wisconsin Death Trip, the home of Jeffrey Dahmer and David Spanbauer. It is the other option, then, that disturbs us: if nature is such that people are born the way they are, this means insanity is not a controllable factor and so, if gone undetected, it can create anomalies in the normal course of human life. Even if his memory isn’t 100% accurate, we can see that his brother could have had a better effect on him had he not died (or, perhaps, Gein murdered him, although the evidence is inconclusive) when Gein was 37. Sarjakuvapuolelta suosittelisin tämän rinnalle ainakin Derf Backderfin erinomaista Ystäväni Dahmeria ja pienin varauksin myös Jeff Jensenin Green River Killer: A True Detective Storya.We don’t just make books, movies, television, comics, and music about serial killers; we make books, movies, television, comics, and music about the books, movies, comics…well, you get the idea. I’ve seen the films Psycho, TheSilence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, all of which contain a spark of inspiration from his heinous acts.

The narrative is told in such a way that this book became hard to put down and the artwork is reflective of the disturbing subject matter without sensationalizing the violence done to the victims.The few times we see Ed’s fantasy world, Powell uses harder lines and not as much shading (plus there’s a fun homage in there that I saw and was glad it was deliberate), which makes it clear that the reality inside Gein’s head was the place he wanted to be. You can have all of the facts short of the omnipotence of God, but you can never actually solve anything. Powell does such a good job making Plainfield just a dull little farming town in the middle of nowhere, and all the people seem nice (although we know that just because they’re “boring” doesn’t make them “nice”), so Gein’s crimes have a huge impact on them, and Powell shows that well. With this graphic novel, Schechter and Powell have painstakingly brought into focus Gein as a character, right from his childhood beginnings to his demise. So many stories have been based on Gein and they’re each disturbing in their own right but you can’t get more disturbed than the original.

Particularly striking is the comic-book style of Gein as priest of his religion, as he might have thought of himself in his head, juxtaposed instantly on the next page with the gruesome reality of what he likely looked like. In terms of how Schechter tackles the story of Ed Gein, from childhood to murders, I thought that he did a pretty good, comprehensive job. Of course, Ed Gein – lonely, battered, pathetic, almost pitiable, working his dark craft in an empty house on a frigid plain in central Wisconsin – was no Charlie Manson. It would be easy to dismiss the problem as non-existent, as too mired in the impossibility of reaching a clear answer. The comic aspect doesn’t enhance it, per se, but the overview is comprehensive without succumbing to exploitation or bad taste.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Powell makes Augusta a forbidding, slab of a woman, and we can easily believe she dominates both her husband and her son, and he does a nice job showing Ed as completely deferential to her but still struggling with a hatred for her. For this graphic novel, he keeps the horror but switches to non-fiction: the story of Eddie Gein, told by Harold Schechter, a professor who specializes in writing about serial killers. Sarjakuva alkaa Alfred Hitchcockin haastattelulla, jossa maineikas ohjaaja käsittelee Psyko-elokuvaansa, ja toteaa sen taustalla olevan Robert Blochin romaanin perustuvan tositapahtumiin. Kaikin puolin surullinen sarjakuva perustuu aika tiukasti faktoihin, joiden pohjalta Harold Schechter on kai kirjoittanut elämäkerrankin.