The Scrapbook of Life and Death

THIS BOOK CONTAINS VISUAL DEPICTIONS OF GRAPHIC SEX AND VIOLENCE

‘Dentist Robs Women of Teeth’ — ‘Death Chair for Nice Old Man’ — ‘Mother Feeds Son Like Bird’

The British newspaper clipping collection of egalitarian George Ives, collected between 1892 and 1949, ranged from murder and theories of crime to cricket scores. He was fascinated by the unusual, the gothic, the sexual, and the melodramatic.

In this graphic novel, acclaimed cartoonist J. Webster Sharp shares some of the most bizarre ...