On sale date: March 11, 2025
Veteran indie cartoonist Carol Lay delivers six tales of larceny, lunacy, and love.
Muderburg (sic), a sleepy island town off the coast of Maine aims to maintain a quiet existence for their population of families, fishermen, craftspeople, and aging oddballs. But every so often, incursions from scheming outsiders require ex-gangster mayor Leo Scazzo (and his loving wife and children) to enact counter-schemes to keep the peace for the other townsfolk... Collecting the complete run of short stories (serialized as Murderville in the 2010s) under one cover, Carol Lay's vivacious cartooning keeps the light side of these dark comedies shining.Murderburg is part of the Fantagraphics Underground imprint.
Praise
"The set up of the unpalatable in ordinary surroundings and the loving relationship between husband and wife is very reminiscent of The Addams Family, but Carol Lay's plots are even funnier. ... Murderburg is a laugh riot bursting with intelligence." — The Slings & Arrows
"A winner... delightful. Readers with no knowledge of Lay's prior work can simply enjoy it as a rollicking new tale, while fans familiar with her career in illustration, comic strips and Simpsons Comics will thrill to this rare long-form work." — Cinema Sentries
"In this collection of six stories, alternative comix great Carol Lay illustrates a portrait of a family whose villainy is only narrowly outweighed by their devotion to each other and the inhabitants of their own little corner of hell." — Solrad
"Lay excels at coming up with absurd comedic premises. The characters themselves are all rather static, which is fine because they exist to provide a structure to hang jokes on. The episodic quality of the stories makes it feel like a demented, modern version of a Harvey comic, which isn't surprising for someone who worked on the Simpsons comics." — High-Low Comics
Specs
- Pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback/Softback
- Color
- Full color.
- Dimensions
- 7" × 10"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875000157