Crimes and Punishments

Dennis Eichhorn has lived life to the hilt. Born in prison, he was a football-playing bully who transformed himself into a peace-and-love hippie -- and subsequently got sent to the state pen for dealing LSD. Fortunately for us, he emerged from the experience a gifted writer and editor who has been able to record his experiences as a petty criminal and observer of life on the shady side of the law.Culled from the pages of the comic book Real Stuff, Crimes and Punishments is Dennis Eichhorn's first comix collection. Working with many of the finest alternative cartoonists alive, this collection of short stories forms a powerful arc of a man born in jail and his return to jail two decades later. Artists like J.R. Williams and Tern Laban bring out the humorous side of the stories, while artists like Michael Dougan and Carol Swain delineate the terror and pathos inherent in Eichhorn's tales. The result is a richly textured work of graphic autobiography