 Chandler: Red Tide (1976) Painted cover by writer-artist Jim Steranko | |
| Author | Jim Steranko |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Jim Steranko |
| Cover artist | Jim Steranko |
| Series | Fiction Illustrated Vol. 3 |
| Genre | Graphic Novel, Historical Fiction |
| Publisher | Pyramid Books |
Publication date | 1976 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
Chandler: Red Tide is a 1976 illustrated novel, an early form of graphic novel, by writer-artist Jim Steranko.
The digest-sized book combines typeset text with two same-sized illustrations per page, utilizing no word balloons or other traditional comics text conventions. A hard-boiled detective novel in the film noir style, its protagonist is a private detective named Chandler (an homage to author Raymond Chandler) who is hired by a man who claims to have been poisoned by the same people responsible for a notorious gangland slaying. As Chandler tracks down witnesses, each begins to turn up dead.