It was announced today that acclaimed mystery writer Gary Phillips will be debuting a brand new webcomic through social activism website FourStory on October 28. The comic will debut with three pages next Wednesday, with additional pages following every other Wednesday until all 22 pages are released. There will be more to follow after the initial first "issue".
The comic is entitled Bicycle Cop Dave, and explores gentrification's effect on the homeless in Los Angeles, as told through the eyes of main character bicycle cop David Richter. Phillips says "Bicycle Cop Dave unfolds on several levels as we follow Dave’s quixotic day taking us into various environs of the changing downtown Los Angeles. He encounters interesting characters from a lawyer smoking crack in a port-a-potty to a one-armed prophet in a Skid Row bar with his wooden tablet of odd commandments. Oh, and there’s a couple of bodies hung upside down below the Sixth Street bridge and some big time development hanky-panky going on too."
Known for his novels The Jook, Violent Spring and Freedom's Fight as well as Boom! Studios' High Rollers, Phillips teams with artist Manoel Magalhaes.Of his writing style, Phillips says “While I write crime and mystery stories, they’re not just whodunits or simply about chasing the McGuffin. My background is in community organizing and working for social change nonprofits. This is reflected in my books likeViolent Spring, set after the ’92 riots to my recent World War II historical novel, Freedom’s Fight wherein the lives of black soldiers and civilians during that period are examined.”
About FourStory
FourStory is a website that advocates for fair living conditions for everyone, finding stuff that’s unfair, off-kilter, and just plain stupid about our society and dissecting it in interesting ways. A force for social justice, intent on illuminating life in 21st century America, and what’s right and wrong about it, in every possible way. FourStory’s is edited by mystery writer Nathan Walpow.
