"People got shot and died like they always did, but not always in that order."

Author, illustrator, and protagonist, wade through the characters, tropes, messages, and genres—from noir and horror to the police procedural—that populate the fragmented American psyche. In doing so, Street Cop insists on the possibility of emergent empathy, even as it maps the malignant structures of our time. As Coover has argued, “in its profanity, fiction sanctifies life.” . . . Street Cop is both provocative and prophetic—injecting new Kafka-esque complexities into the unfolding new stream and asking us to interrogate the line between a condemnable system and a sympathetic individual.

Illustrations by Art Spiegelman