Comics and Columbine
‘In this angry, tender, and extraordinary work, Thomas Campbell writes with fierce immediacy from the cultural ultra-violet of the Asperger spectrum, allowing us a crucial glimpse into the emotional gulag to which we thoughtlessly sentence thousands daily, and perhaps moderating our disingenuous surprise when another awkward loner takes an assault rifle to class for Show and Tell. … I really cannot recommend this vital and necessary book too strongly.’
— Alan Moore, Watchmen/V for Vendetta/ From Hell
‘An important subject’
— Clive Barker, Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions
A book for every teacher, every parent, every teenager
This expanded and updated edition exposes the distorted thinking that results from social acceptance of bullying. This is the story of one man, a step by step chronicle of the development of the school shooter’s thinking. It is also the story of everyone who has ever watched, with horror, the terrible aftermath of a school shooting and asked themselves, why?
Extensively illustrated with images that reflect the horror of increasing mental isolation, the book offers, not only understanding, but also provides hope for those slipping through society’s cracks.