Hairball: A Cal McDonald Mystery
IDW · 2002 · 1 issue
About the series
Steve Niles and Casey Jones bring a gritty, supernatural edge to the crime genre in Hairball: A Cal McDonald Mystery, a single-issue comic from IDW (2002). This entry follows the chain-smoking, monster-hunting detective Cal McDonald as he tackles a case that blends hardboiled mystery with horror, showcasing Niles’ knack for dark, urban fantasy. A concise but potent slice of the Cal McDonald mythos, it stands as a key early collaboration between two talents who helped define IDW’s horror-comics identity.