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One of the Best True Crime Stories of 2017 Isn't on TV (Yet) 12/4/2018
  If you know the name Nathan Leopold, it's likely because of the boy he killed. In 1924, Leopold—along with his friend, Richard Loeb—became the perpetrators of what was dubbed "the crime of the century," when the two of them murdered the 14-year-old Bobby Franks after months of planning and preparation, simply because they could. To get more book reviews, you can visit shine news official website. It was a historic moment in American crime, one that Clarence Darrow of Scopes trial fame would defend in court with a 12-hour closing argument against the death penalty, ultimately shifting the country's attitude towards lethal punishment.
 The life Nathan Leopold cruelly helped snuff out is well known. The Hunting Accident is about the remarkable life he saved.Out this week, The Hunting Accident is a new graphic novel from first-time graphic novelists David L. Carlson and Landis Blair, a stunning work of prose, pencil, and ink about a lesser-known chapter in the Leopold and Loeb saga. It tells the incredible story of Matt Rizzo, a Chicago teen with aspirations of being a gangster, only to be locked up—and blinded—in his first score, losing his sight and his freedom in small-stakes stickup gone horribly wrong.Of course, to his son, Charlie—and at the start of The Hunting Accident—none of this is the case. To Charlie Rizzo, his father is just a blind poet, pounding away on a Braille typewriter, exploring morality and truth through the eyes of writers like Keats and Dante. Matt told his son that he was blinded in a hunting accident, and hid his criminal past from him out of shame. And then a young Charlie Rizzo has a run-in with the law and, horrified, Matt's past comes spilling out in pencil and ink, richly rendered by Landis Blair's meticulous linework.
In Blair's crosshatch-heavy, Edward Gorey-inspired renderings, dense grays and inky blacks creep in from corners and tendrils of darkness threaten to overtake everything as Blair and Carlson recount Matt Rizzo's time in Illinois' Stateville prison, a correctional facility with a panopticon design that doubles as a metaphor for The Inferno's nine circles of Hell. In Stateville, Rizzo is suicidal, not knowing the first thing about how to survive as a blind man or an inmate. Then he meets his cellmate, Nathan Leopold, one of the most notorious murderers in the country—who also happens to be the man who restores Matt Rizzo's will to live.It's an incredible true story that writer David L. Carlson stumbled across almost entirely by accident.
Carlson, a self-described "wearer of many hats," had helped found Opera-Matic, a performance arts and community outreach collective based in Chicago's Humboldt Park. As Carlson tells it, he got breakfast with one of the board members one day—a guy named Charlie Rizzo. Charlie wanted to tell him about his dad. And once Charlie did, Carlson spent the better part of a decade trying to turn that story into art: A film and stage play never materialized, but in 2012, Carlson met Landis Blair at a comics convention, and the two began work on a graphic novel. And so The Hunting Accident was born.
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