J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography

Rick Geary’s single-issue graphic biography for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, published in 2008, offers a concise, illustrated portrait of the controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Geary, the sole writer and artist, brings his signature meticulous, crosshatched style to this non-fiction comic, distilling Hoover’s long career and complex legacy into a compact, accessible format. It stands as a focused example of the graphic biography genre, blending historical research with sequential art.