2022 WINNER for Best Crime Graphic Novel at the Angoul?me International Comics Festival

Two high school students are found dead, stoking fears amongst the student body and surrounding community of a serial killer on the loose. Yet summer is approaching, and the future is fraught with uncertainty--if only things could go back to normal for just a while longer. Instead, the heightened police presence prevents Pola from dealing at school while her best friend, the typically discreet Daniel, resists increasingly morbid impulses. News crews speculate about the Bloody Batter, triggering PTSD and fueling paranoia. Meanwhile, evil has its own plans.

Slash Them All is cartoonist Antoine Maillard's tribute to 1980s American horror cinema, skillfully absorbing the traditions and tropes of the genre, yet drawn in a gorgeous, grayscale pencil style that evokes 1950s film noir more than Jason or Freddy Kreuger. This singular work of graphic fiction is a story about adolescents thrust unexpectedly, unwillingly, and unpreparedly into adulthood, told with a graphic acuity and emotional depth that transcends its simple slasher inspirations.

Author: Antoine Maillard
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 11.64h x 8.49w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781683966579


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 95
Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 41