Rick Geary

Art style Geary's distinctive cartooning style evolved from his early imitations of Edward Gorey. His drawings typically consist of stark, clean black lines against a white background, with no half-tone or shading.

Even more distinctive is Geary's method of panel art. Most comics artists will draw several consecutive sequential panels of the same characters in the same setting. Geary, uniquely, rarely devotes two consecutive panels to the same locale or character. This creates a constant impression of jumping from one image to another.

In reviewing Geary's graphic novel The Lindbergh Child: America's Hero and the Crime of the Century (2008), Wired magazine noted that Geary had "little interest in psychology or interiority, relying instead on his dispassionate pen and the public record to stir up needed drama." Geary himself commented, "I feel that with true crime stories, the material is sensational enough on its own without my adding another layer of gruesomeness... I affect a detached narrative voice and back away from the graphic depiction of violence not because I'm squeamish... but because I enjoy creating a tension between form and content."

Personal life Geary appeared on Jeopardy! on March 14, 1994.

As of 2016, Geary lived with his wife, Deborah, in Carrizozo, New Mexico.

Awards Geary has won two National Cartoonist Society awards: a Magazine and Book Illustration Award in 1994, and a Graphic Novel award in 2017.

His book Gumby, written by Bob Burden, was given the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Title for Younger Readers/Best Comics Publication for a Younger Audience

Notable works At Home with Rick Geary (1985) Fantagraphics Books Classics Illustrated, Berkley Publishing Group Great Expectations, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens (1990) Wuthering Heights, adapted from the novel by Emily Brontë (1990) The Invisible Man, adapted from the novel by H.G. Wells (1991) Housebound with Rick Geary (1991) Fantagraphics Books Cravan (2005) Dark Horse Books (with Bob Burden) Gumby (Wildcard Ink, 2007) Biography series: J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography (2008) Hill and Wang Trotsky: A Graphic Biography (2009) Hill and Wang The Adventures of Blanche (2009) Dark Horse Comics Louise Brooks, Detective (2015) NBM/ComicsLit The True Death of Billy the Kid

A Treasury of Victorian Murder Series, published by NBM/ComicsLit A Treasury of Victorian Murder (1987) Jack the Ripper (1995) is about the unsolved 1888 serial murders by Jack the Ripper. The Borden Tragedy (1997) is about the 1892 murder of Andrew and Abby Borden and the subsequent trial of Lizzie Borden. The Fatal Bullet (1999) is about the 1881 murder of James A. Garfield by Charles Guiteau. The Mystery of Mary Rogers (2001) is about the unsolved 1841 disappearance and murder of Mary Rogers. The Beast of Chicago (2003) is about serial murders by H. H. Holmes during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (2005) is about the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The Case of Madeleine Smith (2006) is about the 1857 murder of Pierre Emile L'Angelier and the trial of Madeleine Smith. The Saga of the Bloody Benders (2007) is about the Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers who operated in rural Kansas between 1871 and 1873.

A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Series, published by NBM/ComicsLit The Lindbergh Child (2008) is about the 1932 kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Famous Players (2009) is about the unsolved 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor. The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans (2010) is about the unsolved serial murders between 1918 and 1919 attributed to the Axeman of New Orleans. The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti (2011) is about the controversial trial, conviction, and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti between 1921 and 1927. Lovers' Lane: The Hall-Mills Mystery (2012) is about the 1922 murder of Eleanor Mills and Edward Hall and the subsequent high-profile trial. Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White (2013) is about the 1906 murder of Stanford White by Harry Kendall Thaw. Black Dahlia (2016) is about the 1947 unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, who was posthumously known as the Black Dahlia.