Barry Gifford's Perdita Durango #[nn]

Barry Gifford's *Perdita Durango* brings the gritty, cinematic world of Gifford's noir fiction to the comics page as part of Avon Books' Neon Lit line — a series dedicated to adapting literary crime fiction into graphic form. The cover presents a striking close-up portrait of Perdita herself, her dark hair adorned with a white flower, set against a richly detailed background of candles and desert imagery that immediately signals danger, mysticism, and attitude. With Bob Callahan adapting Gifford's source material and Scott Gillis on graphics, this 1995 graphic thriller makes a compelling case that literary noir and sequential art are a natural fit.