In Cold Blood is an acknowledged modern classic and as Ande Parks addresses in his new graphic novel, Capote in Kansas, the book is responsible for keeping the Clutter story alive and vital almost fifty years later. The murders would always have been awful, still have been brutally sad, but easily slipped into history if Truman Capote had not decided to travel to Kansas and write a book about the crime and the criminals. Smith and Hickock were later caught, convicted and put to death for the crime. They found little, but they left four bodies behind. They were following a tip from a former employee that suggested Mr. In November 1959, the four member Clutter family - only two children remained living at home - were in their Kansas house having a peaceful, normal evening when Dick Hickock and Perry Smith arrived looking for money. I can still appreciate good writing when I see it, and also the amazing literary experiment that In Cold Blood truly was. I’ve decided that true crime is not my genre of choice, which made getting through Capote’s masterpiece a little tough at times. As a much older and wiser reader all I can say is “whoa” - and maybe also “ick”. When I heard that Oni Press had a graphic novel coming out based on Capote, I decided to reread In Cold Blood in anticipation of my review of the new book. When I was 18 this was cause for disappointment, as I got older I realized that it was actually quite an impressive feat. The only thing I really remember from the book is how shocked I was that the same person could write Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I first read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood in high school when Ted Bundy was repeatedly in the news from death row and we all were a bit true crime crazy in Florida.
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