David B. pushes the ellipsis of inter-iconic space to its peak and presents us with an incredible epic.

Started as a series in the short-lived journal Black (Coconino), The Dead Detective is a collection composed of chapter headings only. Each page contains a title, a sublime illustration, and a sentence taken from a text we don’t have access to. The reader must guess and imagine what has happened between these key moments to follow the enthralling adventures of the Dead Detective, the Girl with a Thousand Daggers, and the Giant Octopus among the other strange, scary, or grotesque characters that populate the author’s universe.