About the Book

This book is a retro journey into a phantasy world inspired by the Film Noir movies and .private eye radio shows of the 1940’s. Rocky Roads was developed when I was a teen-ager in the 1950’s. The drawings were filed away and forgotten until they were found two years ago. Thinking it might be fun, I developed the character as a more adult graphic novel. This piece is based in part on a Film Noir classic Gas Light.

Comics and Graphic Novels are normally colored. Why is Rocky Roads only in black and white? The answer is that Rocky Roads is inspired by the Film Noir of the 1940’s and 50’s, and the “dark” style of the Private Detective Radio Shows.  The use of color loses the “Dark” aspect of the series.  While Rocky Roads stories are satirical, for the satire to work, they must resemble at least in tone, what they satirize.