The Finger of Billy the Kid

In 2025, Rick Geary launched The Finger of Billy the Kid, a comic series that brings his signature meticulous crosshatching and deadpan historical curiosity to a single, peculiar artifact from the Old West. Published as a one-issue debut, the series focuses on the strange afterlife of the outlaw’s severed digit—a grim relic that traveled through hands and decades. Geary, the sole writer and artist, applies his documentary-like precision to this bizarre footnote of American folklore, turning a macabre oddity into a quietly compelling historical vignette.