Available early 2027 in a paperback format featuring a new cover and never-before-seen bonus content.
Harold Schechter and Eric Powell’s critically acclaimed, best-selling true-crime graphic novel returns with new content in Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? Expanded Edition. Written by Schechter and Powell, and illustrated by Powell, this new paperback edition features brand-new bonus content, including creator commentary, research photos, historical insights, and a haunting new cover by Powell.
About Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?:
This is an in-depth exploration of the Gein family and what led to the creation of the grave-robbing psychokiller who haunted the dreams of 1950s America and inspired such films as Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. Schechter and Powell’s true-crime graphic novel takes the Gein story out of the realm of exploitation and gives readers a fact-based dramatization of these tragic, heartbreaking, and psychotic events.
Schechter said, “Though Eddie Gein is commonly described as a serial killer, he was not motivated by the same sadistic bloodlust that drove such sex-murderers as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. He was, in essence, a necrophile: a sexual deviant with a perverted attraction to corpses. The word ‘necrophile’ was coined in the early 1800s to describe a French soldier, Sergeant Francois Bertrand, a ghoulish lover of the dead and Gein’s most notorious predecessor. His story, illustrated by Eric, is a major new feature of our expanded edition, shedding light on the psychopathogy that underlay Gein’s crimes and obsessions.”
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? Expanded Edition (paperback, 248 pages, and 6 × 9”) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on February 2, 2027. It is now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop or bookstore for $24.99.
Praise for Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?:
“Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? uses the facts of Ed Gein’s life to tell you a story so compelling, so expertly rendered, and compassionately told, it will confront your capacity for empathy and have you questioning what you consider your truth.”—Comics Bookcase
“Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is a powerful meditation on the things that can make a person take the lives of others, and then go further. It’s a detailed and very smart take on True Crime that is interested in explaining the phenomenon that is Ed Gein.”—Comics Beat
“It is fantastic! Not only is Eric Powell’s art on point, but Harold Schechter introduces some new ideas about Ed Gein that have never been heard.”—The Last Podcast on the Left
“This is a new true crime comics essential.”—SyFy Wire
“The artistic decisions are what make this feel less like a textbook lesson on Gein and more of a fantastic visual voyage of what really happened, right up to his death.”—Cemetery Dance
“It’s a vibrant, moody miniature, encapsulating everything compelling and absurd about true crime in the stark overcast shadows of a frigid Wisconsin winter.”—The Comics Journal
“Meticulously researched and realized by writer Harold Schechter and artist Eric Powell, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Did? is a gritty, engrossing graphic novel depicting the life and crimes of Ed Gein.”—Comicon
