Exclusive preview: 'Meyer' imagines notorious mobster never died
What if legendary Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky wasn’t quite as dead as everyone believed he was, and was just pretending to be as cover for one last job? That’s the hook behind the new graphic novel"When people think cinematic mobsters in the modern era, the de facto responses are the Scorsese canon, Coppola’s. “These films are fundamentally immigrant’s stories. Aesthetically, I’m playing on similar turf as De Palma’s, though mine is imbued with autobiographical nostalgia.
I drew from the classic rise and fall narratives like the, but my Meyer’s rise comes before the credits have rolled. Imagine aging Meyer Lansky grappling with Jewish identity issues akin to the Coen Brothers’. If I stick the landing [and] end up philosophically in the Coen Brothers' camp, I’ve done my job."Lang’s collaborative partner certainly feels the writer succeeded. "I could not remain indifferent to this ‘goodfella’ in pencil and inked version,” notes artist Andrea Mutti.
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