Book of the Month: Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 running time 04:34
When the kids go back to school and the leaves change, it must be time for September's Book of the Month. This month, Josh picks Rick Geary's A Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child.
While the title is impossibly long, the contents are remarkably clear. Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child is basically a straight-up, just-the-facts presentation of the mystery of what happened to Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped son in 1932. This cartoon documentary goes over what is known and what isn't, and is a great example of something comic books can be, and it's not what most people expect. Rick Geary is a master, and his book is impossible to put down if you like true crime.
Read Josh's full review here!
Highlights
Jack the Ripper
(
1:37, 1:37
)
New Jersey
(
3:03, 3:03
)
Jonbenet Ramsey
(
2:44, 2:44
)
Alan Moore
(
0:44, 1:33, 0:44, 1:33
)
Jack the Ripper
(
1:37, 1:37
)
New Jersey
(
3:03, 3:03
)
Jonbenet Ramsey
(
2:44, 2:44
)
Alan Moore
(
0:44, 1:33, 0:44, 1:33
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
" It's just -- and -- the David Munis the little version a larger comic book show I've fan boy. And today normally we would have your pick of the week podcast. Many but. This comes due on Thursday and it works they gonna have on Monday so today on and talk about my book of the month. Book of the month is the treasury of twentieth century murder. The Lindbergh child America's hero and the crime of the century I was had a hard time picking a book of the month it's a big responsibility. And in many many of shirk that responsibility but I -- it on and you act and think of anything apparently have not allowed to do and Alan Moore book every time. Who knew by the way -- it when I was when I signed up this whole thing a once that I couldn't do that so I was kind of disappointed. And Ron actually said to me said one about this book in instantly I was like oh. True crime history book on in sort of comic book documentary style I will check that out and IA. I'm glad I did. This book is by got him -- Geary and he's been doing comic strips illustrations in children's books and even its regular comics for a long long time. And he's done all sorts of these true crime books he's doing for awhile they were all based in Victorian murder for awhile but I also picked up by the bid Lincoln assassination. But this one just came out he moved into this place entries apparently done all Victorian murder as well liked it. It's all the people that -- in the entire eighteen hundreds that's not true. Where as with a booklet from -- sound more books that. Alan Moore did a lot of research and came up that theory of what he thought was the Jack the Ripper. Murders in the that how to solve that why it happened but this is really just a cold presentation of the facts done in illustration style it's almost documentary and in comic books. For some reason. It works really well -- these types of drawings and ended that the characters are they're all real people Charles Lindbergh was 1927 he flew across the Atlantic. And was the biggest most famous here in America at the time in the early thirties his. -- was kidnapped from the window apparently. And and it was a man on the found somebody and -- excuse him but it's never really been fully -- is always a lot of open questions and -- basically just. -- all of this stuff out he does -- really nice job of doing sort of caricatures of all the people involved in while they're not photo realistic they're not silly so you sort of see what the people. Look like but in in that are kind of exaggerated shows what their personality must be like as well which is one of the really cool things that cartooning can do that other things can't do. I don't really had a hard time putting this book down it was so interesting to read through it for a couple of reasons. One you know it's a mystery just like you know god forbid it's like the Jonbenet Ramsey case but it is something if you keep going back to but also the extra fact it's from the thirties and crime fighting that's probably not the word forensic mystery solving was not the same as it is now and and they had to work with different things he called the police they showed up forty minutes later. Things like that he was sort of living in the in the sort wilds of New Jersey with that's possible. And is all these strange things that that never quite added up -- win the whole thing -- done. And that's when things that make this book a lot of fun you sort of get to make that choice on your own. It doesn't really really good job of presenting you with facts that way that you couldn't understand -- lots and lots of things that he had to decide what is going to put in not. Which people using -- because this was a huge deal this was as big. Immediate sensation as as you would get today. But it was it was then in the service of what time for media but there was definitely. A big deal about this and and it's never been you know fully fully reconciled. I had a really fun time in this book and and I think that if you're into true crime or anything like this this is. A really good book to read and also it's it's another one of those books that my favorite kind of comics of the ones that. Surpass people's expectations of what conduits are not superheroes it's not fiction even its its. Something else it's that it's a Discovery Channel documentary almost -- done illustration form. Which is which is really -- it over and read my full review of the book overnight envoy dot com and next time I have book of the -- of them. It's also voters in three doc comes classic and what -- more videos we did one amount more effort. I think one more that's that's what does that he's very good but also Rick here he's very good in this book is is quite good as well also get there read that and we will see you more later every day there's something for you."
" It's just -- and -- the David Munis the little version a larger comic book show I've fan boy. And today normally we would have your pick of the week podcast. Many but. This comes due on Thursday and it works they gonna have on Monday so today on and talk about my book of the month. Book of the month is the treasury of twentieth century murder. The Lindbergh child America's hero and the crime of the century I was had a hard time picking a book of the month it's a big responsibility. And in many many of shirk that responsibility but I -- it on and you act and think of anything apparently have not allowed to do and Alan Moore book every time. Who knew by the way -- it when I was when I signed up this whole thing a once that I couldn't do that so I was kind of disappointed. And Ron actually said to me said one about this book in instantly I was like oh. True crime history book on in sort of comic book documentary style I will check that out and IA. I'm glad I did. This book is by got him -- Geary and he's been doing comic strips illustrations in children's books and even its regular comics for a long long time. And he's done all sorts of these true crime books he's doing for awhile they were all based in Victorian murder for awhile but I also picked up by the bid Lincoln assassination. But this one just came out he moved into this place entries apparently done all Victorian murder as well liked it. It's all the people that -- in the entire eighteen hundreds that's not true. Where as with a booklet from -- sound more books that. Alan Moore did a lot of research and came up that theory of what he thought was the Jack the Ripper. Murders in the that how to solve that why it happened but this is really just a cold presentation of the facts done in illustration style it's almost documentary and in comic books. For some reason. It works really well -- these types of drawings and ended that the characters are they're all real people Charles Lindbergh was 1927 he flew across the Atlantic. And was the biggest most famous here in America at the time in the early thirties his. -- was kidnapped from the window apparently. And and it was a man on the found somebody and -- excuse him but it's never really been fully -- is always a lot of open questions and -- basically just. -- all of this stuff out he does -- really nice job of doing sort of caricatures of all the people involved in while they're not photo realistic they're not silly so you sort of see what the people. Look like but in in that are kind of exaggerated shows what their personality must be like as well which is one of the really cool things that cartooning can do that other things can't do. I don't really had a hard time putting this book down it was so interesting to read through it for a couple of reasons. One you know it's a mystery just like you know god forbid it's like the Jonbenet Ramsey case but it is something if you keep going back to but also the extra fact it's from the thirties and crime fighting that's probably not the word forensic mystery solving was not the same as it is now and and they had to work with different things he called the police they showed up forty minutes later. Things like that he was sort of living in the in the sort wilds of New Jersey with that's possible. And is all these strange things that that never quite added up -- win the whole thing -- done. And that's when things that make this book a lot of fun you sort of get to make that choice on your own. It doesn't really really good job of presenting you with facts that way that you couldn't understand -- lots and lots of things that he had to decide what is going to put in not. Which people using -- because this was a huge deal this was as big. Immediate sensation as as you would get today. But it was it was then in the service of what time for media but there was definitely. A big deal about this and and it's never been you know fully fully reconciled. I had a really fun time in this book and and I think that if you're into true crime or anything like this this is. A really good book to read and also it's it's another one of those books that my favorite kind of comics of the ones that. Surpass people's expectations of what conduits are not superheroes it's not fiction even its its. Something else it's that it's a Discovery Channel documentary almost -- done illustration form. Which is which is really -- it over and read my full review of the book overnight envoy dot com and next time I have book of the -- of them. It's also voters in three doc comes classic and what -- more videos we did one amount more effort. I think one more that's that's what does that he's very good but also Rick here he's very good in this book is is quite good as well also get there read that and we will see you more later every day there's something for you."








