Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (2004 Edition)

By Daniel Clowes. Published by Fantagraphics.

Softcover, 200 pages, B&W, 2004 (originally published 1989-1993)

This is a redesigned reprint of Daniel Clowes's early, unsettling graphic novel.

Clay Loudermilk stumbles into a screening of a bizarre snuff film that wraps him up in a mystery surrounding a series of cult-inspired killings, dubbed "The Harum Scarum Murders." The subsequent path Loudermilk's life takes is both a terrifying journey into madness and jaw-dropping tour-de-force of visual imagination fraught with psychosexual and conspiratorial tension.

Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron is part of the Eightball series.