Like movie posters, his drawings capture the action with a combination of slick draftsmanship and the bleak and shadowy forms of cinematic noir. Though Rayner's b&w drawings can be static, they are precisely rendered with strikingly delineated faces. But O'Sullivan is essentially a superhero in a fedora, and his ability to kill an overwhelming number of adversaries with nary a scratch to show for it is a bit ridiculous. Collins writes a good gangster yarn based on historical personalities and full of crisp dialogue, violent action and brooding overtones of religious redemption. The Looneys go into hiding, and O'Sullivan and son set out to find them, encountering the celebrities of gangland Chicago along the way. They murder O'Sullivan's wife and younger son, leaving him stunned but determined to have his revenge. Fearing what the kid saw, the Looneys set the O'Sullivans up to be killed. He inadvertently witnesses his father and one of the Looneys murder a crooked cop and his partners. stows away in his car to see what he does for a living. Curious about his dad's mysterious "job," Michael Jr. It's 1930 and O'Sullivan works for the Looneys, an Irish mob family with a stranglehold on the politics and businesses of a small Midwestern city. It's the story of Michael O'Sullivan, a feared and religiously inclined mob hit man who's brutally betrayed-and the fierce vengeance he wreaks. For venue information, please call 56.Originally published as a single-volume graphic novel in 1998, this is the comics work upon which the Tom Hanks movie is based. Copies of the book and graphic novel are available to check out from the Scott Community College Library.įor general information, please call 56. The graphic novel and text versions of Road to Perdition are being used by Scott Community College instructors in the classroom. Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins has been selected as the Great Scott Read 2021-2022. This event is free and open to the public. with the author question and answer panel to follow.įollowing the film will be an author question and answer panel with Max Allan Collins, author of the graphic novel, Barbara Collins, critically acclaimed author and short story writer, and Matthew Clemens, author and frequent collaborator of Max Allan Collins. Scott Community College, with the generosity of the Figge Art Museum, will host a screening of the award-winning film, Road to Perdition (2002), starring Tom Hanks on March 22, 2022, at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W.
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