I’m a little late to this, but back in November 2021, Mike White of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine covered Point Blank on the Projection Booth podcast with guests Jedidiah Ayres and friend of the site Andrew Nette. Mike and I go back to before this site existed (which as a lot of you know, […]
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Note: For those of you who are new here, the “Not Quite Parker” category is where I look at pastiches of, homages to, references to, and rip-offs of the Parker novels. Mild spoilers, but this is a pretty typical crime and blaxploitation flick, so nothing in it is all that unpredictable. Robert Hooks […] I’m very excited about this. IDW Publishing has just announced Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition: Last Call. For those of you not familiar with the first Martini Edition, it was released in 2011 and was a massive, and I mean massive slipcased volume containing the first two of Darwyn Cooke’s already-classic comic book […] Rififi (Portugal) 19?? Title translation: Hunter of Men
Publisher unknown (Brazil) (????) (English: Point Blank) Translation of cover text: Top: “Special Mystery Edition” / Subtitle: “The barbarous vengeance of a betrayed and robbed man!” This Brazilian cover is courtesy of reader Cesar. Over the coming days, I’ll be rolling out a number of Portuguese-language covers that he clued me in to. […]
As you may not be aware because I did not give it nearly the coverage I should have, Darwyn Cooke and IDW Publishing have launched a companion line to their highly successful line of comic book adaptations of the Parker novels. They will be reprinting the original Richard Stark novels, each with ten […] Why is the cover of that bit of bureaucracy posted above? Because that’s the bit of bureaucracy that contains this: The hunter, by Richard Stark, pseud. New York, Pocket Books, 155 p. (Permabook edition, M 4272) © Richard Stark; 15Dec62; A607387 Fifty years ago today, a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered a […]
Since Trent’s currently in the process of confirming, cataloging, and showcasing every single sleaze paperback Donald E. Westlake ever wrote (under various pseudonyms), I thought I’d take the opportunity to draw the attention of British VWoP readers (and any vacationing Americans) to a forthcoming event where there’s guaranteed to be a fine […]
NB: A version of this post also appears on Existential Ennui. As anyone who’s been following my books blog Existential Ennui for a while will know, I’ve been avidly collecting Donald E. Westlake first (and other) editions—both his “own-brand” books and his Richard Stark, Tucker Coe et al pseudonymous works—since 2010. It’s […] 
Introduction Darwyn Cooke does one in-depth interview for each volume in his series of comic book adaptations of Richard Stark’s [pseudonym of Donald Westlake] Parker novels. (Here are the interviews for The Hunter and The Outfit.) For his new one, The Score, he was kind enough to invite The Violent World of Parker to […] |
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