Issue No. 140

BELUSHI – THE LIFE AND DEATH OF AN AMERICAN ICON

Belushi: On a Mission from God

by Alberto Schiavone (author) and Matteo Manera (illustrator)

One Peace Books

2016, 112 pages, 7 x 1 x 10 inches (softcover)

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In 1982 John Belushi died from an overdose in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont when he was 33 years old. At his memorial service, his friend and collaborator, Dan Akroyd, said Belushi was “a brilliant performer, writer, tactician, business strategist…a good man – and a bad boy.” Released today, this graphic novel biography, written and illustrated by two Italian truefans of Belushi, presents us with the story of a man whose level of self-destructive behavior moved in lockstep with his rapid rise to international superstardom. Author Schiavone doesn’t bother explaining why Belushi abused drugs when he had everything else going for him – because the why is not especially interesting.…