Jake Tapper writes and draws The Butcher for Top Shelf
Top Shelf Productions will publish Jake Tapper’s debut graphic novel, The Butcher: The Decades-Long Hunt for Klaus Barbie, One of the World’s Most Notorious Killers, on June 1, 2027. Tapper both writes and illustrates the book, taking his investigative work into sequential art.
Top Shelf Productions will publish Jake Tapper’s debut graphic novel, The Butcher: The Decades-Long Hunt for Klaus Barbie, One of the World’s Most Notorious Killers, on June 1, 2027. Tapper both writes and illustrates the book, taking his investigative work into sequential art. The story follows the pursuit of Barbie,
a Nazi war criminal who evaded justice for decades, alongside the people who investigated his movements and the assistance that enabled his escape. Top Shelf says Tapper worked with research material in German, English, Spanish and French. Two editions are planned. The full-colour softcover has a US list price of
$19.99 and ISBN 9781603096157. A limited hardcover, signed and numbered, will be sold exclusively through IDW Publishing’s online store for $49.99, under ISBN 9781603096263. The publisher’s October 21 announcement presents the book as an original graphic novel, with the creator responsible for the visual storytelling
as well as the reporting. Its subject is the long investigation and the network behind a fugitive’s survival, placing the eventual account of accountability within a broader history of evasion. Source: Official announcement. Image credit: Jake Tapper / Top Shelf Productions, supplied publisher cover artwork.
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