The great Anthony Bourdain has something to add to his resume: graphic novelist.
From the piece in the Guardian...
"It's about ultraviolent food nerds. It's a gourmet slaughterfest, sort of like Fistful of Dollars meets Eat Drink Man Woman," he told the Omaha World Herald. In another interview, he described the comic as a combination of Kurosawa's 19th-century Japanese gangster film Yojimbo, Big Night, the story of two Italian brothers starting a restaurant in New Jersey in the 1950s, and Danish film Babette's Feast, in which a Parisian refugee plans a culinary banquet to thank the twin sisters who took her in. "[Get Gyro is] an ultraviolent slaughterfest over culinary arcana," said Bourdain.
The move isn't Bourdain's first foray into fiction: he is also the author of a handful of crime novels, including Gone Bamboo, "a feast of murder, hitmen, and the hitwomen they love", Bone in the Throat, about a junior chef who "unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime", and The Bobby Gold Stories, as well as his non-fiction books. "The next book will be a crime novel, just to take a break from writing and talking about myself. I think that will be a healthy departure," he told the Omaha World Herald. "It's displaced New Yorkers in the Caribbean doing bad things to each other. Food will be involved."
Here's some of Bourdain traveling to Istanbul on "No Reservations":
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