Well, for current stuff, the one you have to check out if you
haven't already is THE DARK HOTEL. Go to:
http://www.salon.com/comics/dark/4/dream/2000/09/15dream1.html
and check around from there.
Julius Knipl (sp?), Real Estate Photographer is a cartoon
with a hb, noirish feel to it. Some of the stuff by the guy
who did Maus also. Did someone already mention Dick Tracy?
Some of the gangsters there, with the deformed faces. I
remember having a Batman cartoon book that began with the
first installment that explained the origins of the
superhero--the young Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents
murdered by some muggers. It was night time and the family
had just come out of a movie and were walking through some
alleyways... I can still picture the long shadows cast by the
light of the streetlamps, the steamy, smokey mist in the air,
the moon between tops of tall skyscrapers that seemed like
they were leaning in...
Juri asked:
>Any other hardboiled cartoons come to
mind?
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