Self Help

by Owen King, Jesse Kellerman, Marianna Ignazzi (Illustrator)

Overview

A surreal and colorful world populated with two-faced talk-show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Euro-trash assassins.

Down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser’s existence is a bleak one...especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like uber-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But after a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime...which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this California noir—a rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story for our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534327542
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	02/25/2025
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 10.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Owen King is the author of Double Feature, and We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Sleeping Beauties and Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. His latest novel, The Curator, was published in March 2023. He lives in upstate New York with his family.

Kellerman is a writer. He has published five solo novels; six novels in collaboration with his father, Jonathan Kellerman; a bunch of plays; and a handful of essays. You can learn more about him by Googling his name. Everything that comes up is true.

Marianna Ignazzi is an Italian comic artist based in Rome. Ignazzi made her debut in a cartoon strip on the second issue of Mostri from Bugs Comics. This was followed by Fuori la Notte and Malattie D’Amore for I Ragazzi di Pasteur series from Carocci Editore. For Edizioni Star Comics, she illustrated Il ritratto di Dorian Gray in I Maestri del Mistero series. Since 2016 she's been working on the series Julia by Sergio Bonelli Editore. Ignazzi has also illustrated comic book series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated original series An Unkindness of Ravens from BOOM! Studios.

Editorial Reviews

Like something that Patricia Highsmith and Donald Westlake dreamed up during a sunbaked L.A. bender.

Duane Swierczynski

Sun-drenched LA classic and contemporary noir mushed and mashed together!

Paul Tremblay

"Expertly devised for today's superficial media-obsessed America, Self Help is a sunbaked crime story that is thrilling, funny, and wonderfully Hitchcockian."

Christopher Condon

Funny, edgy, and so damn smart, bringing a cool Old Hollywood vibe to a contemporary setting. SELF HELP is the must-read comic of the year!

Rio Youers

Sun-drenched LA classic and contemporary noir mushed and mashed together!

author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Ho Paul Tremblay

Like something that Patricia Highsmith and Donald Westlake dreamed up during a sunbaked L.A. bender.

New York Times bestselling author of California Be Duane Swierczynski