The Fade Out (Image Comics series)

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The Fade Out is a noir crime comic series from Image Comics that follows a troubled Hollywood screenwriter entangled in a dark conspiracy surrounding a starlet’s death in 1940s Tinseltown.

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instanceOf comic book series
crime comic
noir comic
artist Sean Phillips NERFINISHED
artStyle realistic
award Eisner Award nomination
colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser NERFINISHED
containsElement Hollywood scandal
murder mystery
political intrigue
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
format limited series
genre crime
mystery
noir
hasCollectedEdition The Fade Out: Act One NERFINISHED
The Fade Out: Act Three NERFINISHED
The Fade Out: Act Two NERFINISHED
The Fade Out: Deluxe Edition NERFINISHED
hasCreatorDuo Brubaker and Phillips NERFINISHED
imprint Image Comics NERFINISHED
language English
mainCharacter Charlie Parish NERFINISHED
medium print
narrativePerspective third-person
narrativeStyle hardboiled
numberOfIssues 12
plotFocus conspiracy surrounding a starlet’s death
protagonistOccupation screenwriter
publicationFormat monthly comic
publisher Image Comics NERFINISHED
relatedWork Criminal NERFINISHED
Fatale NERFINISHED
Kill or Be Killed NERFINISHED
settingPeriod 1940s
settingPlace Hollywood NERFINISHED
Los Angeles NERFINISHED
subject blacklisting
censorship
film industry
targetAudience adult
theme McCarthy-era paranoia
corruption in Hollywood
studio system exploitation
trauma and guilt
tone cynical
dark
writer Ed Brubaker NERFINISHED

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Ed Brubaker wrote The Fade Out (Image Comics series)