Noir Burlesque

Marini’s two-part crime comic draws on 1950s American film noir: gangsters, dangerous romance and competing loyalties create the trap around its central characters. The first volume appeared in November 2021.

Its interest is less in solving a puzzle than in watching people follow desire into a tightening set of choices. The comic openly embraces noir’s theatricality.

Gangster story and romantic thriller meet in a heightened period setting. Violence and seduction are part of its genre language, not signs of a safe world.

Black-and-white drawing with selective red gives the pages a stage-lit intensity. Marini uses strong silhouettes and expressive bodies to make glances as charged as action.