Created by Chris R. Notarile Sing along if you know the words... In the eponymous black & white 2021 film short, JJ FLASK is "an old fashioned, hard-boiled P.I. in a modern day setting" trying to scrape out a living working "the mean streets of Los Angeles during its twilight hours." The film, we're told, … Continue reading JJ Flask
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Cooper Hart
Created by Stephen Randle "I could quite literally throw a stone from my front steps and hit the Lower City below, and I had done it a few times just to prove it was possible." In what they're tagging a "gritty YA urban fantasy novel" set following a "climate apocalypse," Canada's Hamilton, Ontario is sinking … Continue reading Cooper Hart
Rose Gallagher
Created by Erin Lindsey If Disney had done The X-Files, it may have gone something like this... Plucky, sassy housemaid ROSE GALLAGHER, an Irish girl from rough and tumble Five Points in New York City is content sweeping the floors and performing other household chores in a swank Fifth Avenue brownstone, and she'd probably still … Continue reading Rose Gallagher
Rafe Guttman (Bordello of Blood)
Created by Robert Zemeckis (1952--) and Bob Gale (1951--) Here's another one for you from the Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers category. You know, you find private eyes in the strangest places... RAFE GUTTMAN, the seedy, sarcastic, sardonic P.I. hero of the second Tales From The Crypt  movie, Bordello Of Blood, is basically Dennis Miller, Private Eye. … Continue reading Rafe Guttman (Bordello of Blood)
Myron Vale
Created by Scott William Carter A shot to the head leaves Portland, Oregon private detective MYRON VALE with a .38 slug lodged in his brain, one hell of a headache... and the ability to see dead people. A lot of dead people. Which turns out to be a great way for him to increase his … Continue reading Myron Vale
Frank Harding (Hard Bargain)
Created by Steven S. DeKnight (text) Leno Carvalho & Bruno Hang (art) He's HARD-boiled. The 2025 graphic novel he appears in is called HARD Bargain. And the name of this tough guy private dick in 1940s Los Angeles is FRANK HARDING. Do you think maybe the author, Steven S. DeKnight, is trying too HARD? Still, … Continue reading Frank Harding (Hard Bargain)
Sonny Baca
Created by Rudolfo Anaya (1937-2020) They call SONNY BACA the seeker (he's been searching low and high), not just for the meaning of his own dreams, but for the cultural roots of crime, in this exceptional quartet of novels Albuquerque, New Mexico private investigator has a background you don't see often in the Shamus Game … Continue reading Sonny Baca
Perry Cutter (Los Monstruos)
Created by James Robinson (writer) and Jesus Merino (art) Stop me if you've heard this one before... So once again we're back in the retro-1950s, with a hard-boiled private eye, PERRY CUTTER, and all the allegedly noir trimmings. Familiar turf, especially for a comic book. Then again, Los Montruos from Dark Horse, being a 21st … Continue reading Perry Cutter (Los Monstruos)
Adam Paradise
Created by Teel James Glenn Hoo-boy. In Not Born of Woman (2024), the first of a promised series, ADAM PARADISE (that's the name he goes by) is a suitably hard-boiled private eye in 1939 New York City, but he's never quite fit in. Maybe it's because he's over two hundred years old, and was cobbled … Continue reading Adam Paradise
Juan Calavera (Calavera P.I.)
Created by Marco Finnegan "I don't know what I am." And neither do we. Rest in peace? If only... it's Dia de los Muertos, 1930, and Los Angeles private eye JUAN CALAVERA is summoned to help an Maria Valdez, a lady reporter and an old friend, rescue her  kidnapped son; a case that may (or … Continue reading Juan Calavera (Calavera P.I.)