The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker (trilogy)

​Okay, so it’s official. I’m not just of fan of this creative team, I love their work. Every so often in graphic novels a writer and an artist form a perfect storytelling duo. And this is one of those.
The Fade Out is Noir through and through, in tone, in style, in attitude. All but lingo.
The characters smoke like chimneys are they stumble through the moral grey areas. All the areas in this book are morally grey. Some darker still. That’s Noir for you. It’s all in the shadows.
And movie business in the post WWII Los Angeles is as shadowy as it gets.
This is a story of a struggling screenwriter who wakes up next to a dear starlet Can’t wait to see what’s next.
 
Book Two of the murky mystery in Tinseltown where motivations are as obscure as one’s true faces. Is a replacement blonde good enough for the movie that lost its star and a screenwriter who might be losing his plot? There’s so much going on onscreen and behind the scenes in this murder mystery. Plus, it’s gorgeous, absolutely stunning to look at. Sleepy or not, moving on to Book Three to see how it all plays out.
 
Well worth staying up past bedtime to find out how this mystery resolves. What an exceptional trilogy. You don’t have to be a Noir fan going in—Brubaker will make one out of you.
And as much as I love cinema and cinema-related tales, this was just a win-win all around.
Not just the mystery itself, but the drama behind it, the terrific characters, and pitch perfect tone of the entire production.
And absolutely stunning. The book looks and reads like art. Or, appropriately enough, like a very well done, very stylish movie.
Awesome reading experience. A terrific trilogy. Recommended.