Buster Keaton’s Cops

Turned away by the girl who says she won't marry him until he's a "big business man," Buster stumbles into an unlikely business venture - and an even less likely chain of misunderstandings that puts him directly in the path of an entire city police force. What begins as one small bit of bad luck spirals into one of the most audacious, large-scale chase sequences ever committed to film: a single man versus an army of cops, weaving through streets, alleys, and impossible odds with nothing but nerve and desperation keeping him one step ahead.This volume redraws and recomposes Keaton's 1922 short frame by frame for the comics page, reworking panel proportions, cropping, and framing to capture the scale and momentum of the chase. The bold black-and-white linework brings the sprawling crowds of pursuing officers and the mounting chaos of the city streets to life panel by panel, translating one of silent comedy's most ambitious set pieces into a format built for that same relentless rhythm."Cops" is part of an ongoing series independently publishing Keaton's silent films as graphic novels, born from a lifelong love of his comedy - where one small misstep snowballs into total, spectacular disaster, and the man at the center never quite sees it coming until he's already running. Widely regarded as one of Keaton's finest and most technically daring shorts, this volume gives longtime fans a fresh look at a landmark work and offers new readers a thrilling entry point into his filmography.