Sean Murphy, Author . Delta $13 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-38245-7
Murphy (Hope Valley Hubcap King
, etc.) takes a dark, sardonic look into an apocalyptic future in his latest novel, a funny but flawed narrative about a young man who battles the totalitarian forces of the business world. Buddy LeBlanc was born in...
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Sean Murphy, Selected by, Sean Murphy, Author . Delta $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-38244-0
Murphy (The Hope Valley Hubcap King
) sends up writers, writing, ambition and desire in this quirky, gleeful farce. One day, struggling writer and recent L.A. transplant Frank Matthews runs into an old writing school chum, Max Peterson, whose "ac
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Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth. DC Black Label, $19.99 trade paperback (232p) ISBN 978-1-4012-7959-2
This provocative thriller set in the world of Batman poses the question: what if the criminally insane Joker could be cured? Thanks to a plot-handy new medication, he’s reborn and rehabilitated as civilian Jack Napier. In turn, Batman becomes...
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Sean Murphy, Author . Dell $5.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-440-24089-1
Murphy, a longtime practitioner of Zen, has distilled the open-minded adventurousness of his life's study into a quirky novel set in the future that is at once ingenious, exhilarating and pleasantly frustrating. Frederick G. Brown II (inexplicabl
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Sean Murphy, Author, Sean Murphy, Illustrator . Oni Press $11.95 (140p) ISBN 978-1-932664-30-0
Nothing says manly more than a yellow Jeep covered in mud. At least that's what art school student Kent thinks. Fresh from a messy breakup, Kent goes home to regroup. When he sees his friend Greg's brand-spanking-new Jeep, Kent seizes on the
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Sean Murphy. DC/Vertigo, $16.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3768-4
This bracing tale of the Second Coming uses contemporary social issues to explore a familiar “what if?” scenario—namely, what would happen if Jesus showed up and was confronted with the corrupt, consumerist culture in which we live? In Murphy’s...
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Sean Murphy. Massive, $17.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-961012-15-8
Batman series regular Murphy delivers a fun, flamboyant update to the legend of Zorro. In modern-day La Vega, drug cartel kingpin El Rojo publicly murders Antonio de la Vega—who happens to be cosplaying as Zorro at a Day of the Dead festival—despite
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