Maids Hardcover by Katie Skelly

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2020-10-13)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 112 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683963684
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents.

Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids — who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent — shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin’s increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly’s highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics.

About the Author

Katie Skelly is a Los Angeles-based cartoonist whose books include My Pretty Vampire (2017), Maids (2020), and The Agency (2023). She is the co-host of the comics podcast Thick Lines, editor of the Viscere horror comics anthology series, and creator of the Bad Girl Tarot and Oracle decks. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Syracuse University and was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus in 2015.