True Crime Recliner. Guess Who.

By Jason R Pfeiffer

Created during the strange quiet of the COVID quarantine, this collection of pen-and-ink portraits explores the unsettling faces behind true crime. Drawn with a quill dipping pen on Bristol paper, each image captures a raw psychological presence - not to glorify, but to process.

Like the visual shorthand used in true crime documentaries - an ominous eye in the shadows, a blurred face behind bars - this book grapples with the visual reality of human darkness. Inspired by the obsessive line work of Robert Crumb and the gritty aesthetics of underground illustration, these works are both personal portfolio and pandemic-time time capsule.

This is not a celebration of crime, but an artist's record of life in isolation - drawing compulsively, studying faces, and confronting the culture of true crime that so many of us consumed during uncertain times.

Part coffee table book, part visual archive, "An interactive guessing game by the artist behind True Crime Recliner featuring artist renditions of criminals and commentary by Dr. Jessica Labbe." invites viewers to sit with discomfort, beauty, and ink.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08YQFWDHV
• ISBN13: 9798721524363
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"