Simon’s 600-page blockbuster on a team of Baltimore homicide detectives became a 1991 bestseller.
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“I sent some early copies to some of the detectives — to my friends — and I got back a lot of funny responses, from ‘What the [heck is this]?’ to ‘I can’t believe it has gone this far,’” he joked as part of a launch event at Greedy Reads bookstore in Remington. Dressed in a dark button-down shirt and jeans, with a pair of sunglasses perched atop his head, the former cops reporter for The Sun told the audience how modestly the whole 35-year-old “Homicide” phenomenon actually began.
That last remark drew laughter, as no one familiar with Simon’s famously exacting approach to his labors would buy that he simply slapped his name on someone else’s product. And as he discussed how “Homicide: The Graphic Novel” came together Simon offered a window into some of his thinking about storytelling.
Cavaliers were the government-issued cars the Baltimore detectives drove in the late 1980s; Brown was a detective on the squad. Both are rendered in detail. “I read it like a new book, a new narrative creation,” he said. “It feels different than the book, and it should.”
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