Introduction to Shadow Bay

Now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Welcome to the home of Shadow Bay, the noir-crime-blog-visual-novel by writer Donald J. Rothscild & artist William T. Ayton. Please note that you can access the first chapter from the table of contents box directly to the right of these words.

Here is a review of Shadow Bay from Chronogram magazine, March 2012:

Shadow Bay: A Noir Visual Novel
Donald Rothschild, art by William T. Ayton
Epigraph, 2012, $17.95

Rhinebeck’s Rothschild and Ayton invent their own genre for this hard-boiled tale of a sportswriter and an auburn-haired restaurateur who meet at a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and the racetrack, getting over their heads in corruption and murder. The pungent text and evocative black-and-white paintings don’t cohabit frames as in most graphic novels, but deliver the goods side by side, like a shot of whisky and a chaser.