Parish has more than a few problems: PTSD, writer's block, and a blacklisted friend who's accused of being a commie-and secretly writing his scripts for him. The Fade Out is about Charlie Parish, a Hollywood screenwriter in 1948, the height of the Red Scare. Created alongside longtime collaborators Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser-an award-winning, critically acclaimed team that excels in portrayals of bad people trying to do good things and the messes they make along the way. The Fade Out is the latest of these, a contender for one of the best graphic novels of the year. Or maybe you might be into the very sort of stuff stories that Brubaker tells in comics and graphic novels that aren't based on superheroes: Books like Criminal and Fatale, the stuff of film noir and crime literature, full of addicts and femmes fatale and guys who just should've walked away when they had the chance. Maybe you're into Westworld, the hit new HBO series on which he served as a writer and supervising producer, co-writing last week's episode with showrunner Jonathan Nolan. (So he's kind of responsible for Civil War, too). Maybe it's the Captain America movies- The Winter Soldier is a direct adaptation of the story that kicked off his blockbuster five-year tenure writing Captain America comics, and it was his idea to turn Cap's old war buddy Bucky Barnes into the cyborg killing machine The Winter Soldier. You've probably spent some part of 2016 loving something Ed Brubaker is at least partially responsible for.

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