Joel Rose
GET JIRO! COMING JULY 3, 2012
Selected Works
Graphic Novel
In a future LA ruled by culinary warlords, two sides will battle to the bitter end to...
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A ruthless master chef with ideas of his own!
Fiction
"A thrilling new whodunnit. New York's answer to the Jack the Ripper murders."
--Independent on Sunday
“A modern urban masterpiece.”
--Irvine Welsh
“Sharp, savage and extremely well written.”
--New York Times
Urban Historical
"A novelist's touches bring history to life."
--USA Today
Graphic Novels
"The writing is crisp, the art grim. What a movie this would make!"
-- Flux Magazine
"This pioneering graphic novel mystery blends hard-boiled genre conventions with punk and transgressive aesthetics, resulting in a lost classic of the 1990s." --Borderland Speakeasy #14: The No Wave Noir of La Pacifica
"Learn about lots of really nasty people that you've probably never heard of."
--Bryan Shultz
DC Comics' Award-Winning Factoid Book
Short Story Anthologies
"Violent. Sexy....Plenty that readers will admire."
--Library Journal
"Not your ordinary love stories."
--Publisher's Weekly
Joel Rose's most recent novel is The Blackest Bird. Previous books include Kill the Poor, Kill Kill Faster Faster, and New York Sawed in Half. Both Kill the Poor and Kill Kill Faster Faster have been made into feature films. The Blackest Bird has been translated into 13 languages.
KILL KILL FASTER FASTER STARRING GIL BELLOWS AND LISA RAY DIRECTED BY GARETH ROBERTS
Coming July 2012, a graphic novel from DC Comics/Vertigo, Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose's GET JIRO!! Art by Langdon Foss
