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Obie Award Winner Adam Rapp To Release Graphic Novel 'Ball Peen Hammer' 10/1
by BWW News Desk - Oct 1, 2009


Adam Rapp is best known as a prolific Obie Award-winning-playwright, respected novelist, filmmaker, and director. He has written more than ten plays, including 'American Sligo' and 'Red Light Winter'(nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2006); directed his first feature film, 'Winter Passing' in 2005; published several young adult novels and an adult novel, The Year of Endless Sorrows (2007); and received two Drama Desk nominations as a director for his production of 'Blackbird'. Now, in his first graphic novel, BALL PEEN HAMMER (First Second Books / October 1st, 2009 / $17.99 paperback original), Rapp explores civilization at its darkest hour in this new visual format.

Obie Award Winner Adam Rapp To Release Graphic Novel 'Ball Peen Hammer' 10/1
by Charlie Piane - Aug 13, 2009


Adam Rapp is best known as a prolific Obie Award-winning-playwright, respected novelist, filmmaker, and director. He has written more than ten plays, including 'American Sligo' and 'Red Light Winter'(nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2006); directed his first feature film, 'Winter Passing' in 2005; published several young adult novels and an adult novel, The Year of Endless Sorrows (2007); and received two Drama Desk nominations as a director for his production of 'Blackbird'. Now, in his first graphic novel, BALL PEEN HAMMER (First Second Books / October 1st, 2009 / $17.99 paperback original), Rapp explores civilization at its darkest hour in this new visual format.

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