The Brooklyn Paper profiles neighborhood's comic book writers:
David Gallaher’s three-bedroom apartment in Ditmas Park and Steve Ellis’s two-family row house in Kensington are separated by only a few blocks. But sometimes the comic book creators are worlds apart.
Take, for instance, their collaboration on “Box 13,” their graphic novel about of Dan Holiday, a spy novelist turned investigative author.
A re-imagining of a 1940s radio serial by the same name, “Box 13” follows Holiday as he’s sent on a harrowing journey in search of said box. Gallaher pulls on Mickey Spillane’s trench coat and pours himself a shot of “The Manchurian Candidate” with “The Bourne Identity” as a chaser in this psychological drama full of gunfire, chase scenes and a little romance, told through Ellis’s energetic art.
It’s a story that almost started on the wrong foot.
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