Rick Geary

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born

Kansas City, Missouri, The United States

website

http://www.rickgeary.com/

genre

Comics & Graphic Novels, Nonfiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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RICK GEARY was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita,
Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first
cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan.
He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San
Diego in 1975.

He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the
Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in
Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His
early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from
Fantagraphics Books.

During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The
New York Times Book Review. His illustratio...more

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	The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Saga of the Bloody Benders 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lindbergh Child 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of Mary Rogers 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murder of Abraham Lincoln 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of Madeleine Smith 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fatal Bullet: The Assassination of James A. Garfield 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1999	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars