Knowing how bad it looks, Parish quietly escapes with no one the wiser, only to find that the studio covers up the murder as a suicide and quickly replaces her with a brand new actress. Then, one morning, Parish wakes in a bathtub in a studio-owned house with a massive hangover, and finds Val dead from strangulation in the living room. Parish maintains a barely tolerable existence as a front for Mason's screenplays while drinking the days away, nursing a more than visible crush on starlet Val Sommers, and maintaining a sexually tense friendship with Gil's wife Melba. His only way to succeed is to let Gil Mason, his mentor turned blacklisted pariah, ghost-write for him.
A master of his craft back in the day, Parish has been reduced to a shell of his former self by the horrors of the war and he hasn't been able to write anything since. The story is a straight up Film Noir Hollywood California Crime Fiction story set only a few years after World War II.Ĭharles Parish is a screenwriter for a Hollywood studio.
The Fade Out is a twelve-issue Comic Book miniseries by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips, published by Image Comics.
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