title: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
James Remar
List of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac characters
Squee (disambiguation)
Hot in December
Philip Carlo
I Feel Sick
Anthony Casso
Jhonen Vasquez
The Nostril Picker
sentences: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (often abbreviated JtHM) is the first comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.
 The series tells the story of a young man named Johnny C. as he explores the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders with which he always seems to get away.
 "JtHM" began as a comic strip in the 1990s, then ran under alternative comics publisher Slave Labor Graphics as a limited series of seven issues, later collected in the trade paperback "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut".
 The series produced two spin-offs: "Squee!
" and "I Feel Sick".
William James Remar (born December 31, 1953), is an American actor and voice actor.
 He played Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in "Sex and the City", Ajax in "The Warriors" (1979), homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in the thriller "48 Hrs.
" (1982), gangster Dutch Schultz in "The Cotton Club" (1984), Lord Raiden in "" (1997), Giuseppe Salvatore in The CW TV series "The Vampire Diaries", Jack Duff in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994), and Harry Morgan in the Showtime TV series "Dexter".
 Since 2009, he has done voiceover work in ads for Lexus luxury cars.
 James Remar also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
This is a list of characters of "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac", a comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.
Squee is a character in "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac".
Hot in December is a crime/suspense novella written by American author Joe R. Lansdale.
 It's the story of a man who witnesses a fatal hit and run incident of one of his good neighbors.
 Tom Chan, the protagonist, gets a good look at the driver who didn't even look back.
 The problem is when Tom identifies the driver he turns out to be the son of the leader of a powerful criminal gang, The Dixie Mafia.
 To keep Tom from testifying, his wife is abducted and his daughter threatened.
 So Tom enlists the help of some old war buddies he served with in Afghanistan to rescue his family and bring justice to the gang of criminals.
 Problem is, one of the friends is a homicidal maniac whose level of violence shocks even Tom.
Philip Carlo (April 18, 1949 – November 8, 2010) was a journalist and best selling biographer of Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso, and Richard Ramirez.
 Carlo suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
 He was bound to a wheelchair and respirator, but retained his ability to speak normally during his lifetime.
 He died of the disease on November 8, 2010 at age 61.
I Feel Sick is a "doubleshot", full-color comic book written and drawn by the comic artist Jhonen Vasquez and colored by Rosearik Rikki Simons (who also voiced GIR in "Invader Zim").
 It revolves around Devi D. from "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" (JTHM), and her dealings with the same supernatural and/or psychological forces that drove Johnny to lunacy.
 Originally intended as a single paperback, it was later split into two issues so as to avoid compromising the length of the story.
 It was published by Slave Labor Graphics.
 Vasquez stated that the creation process of "I Feel Sick" was cathartic.
 The problems Devi had while working for NERVE and neglecting her own work was reminiscent to the pressure Vasquez had while working on "Invader Zim".
Anthony Salvatore "Gaspipe" Casso (born May 21, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an Italian-American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family.
 During his career in organized crime, Casso was regarded as a "homicidal maniac" in the American Mafia, single-handedly killing over 40 to 50 people, and ordering as many as 100 or more murders.
 Former Lucchese captain and government witness Anthony Accetturo once said of Casso, "all he wanted to do is kill, kill, get what you can, even if you didn't earn it."
 In interviews and on the witness stand, Casso has confessed involvement in the murders of Frank DeCicco, Roy DeMeo, and Vladimir Reznikov.
 Casso has also admitted to several attempts to murder Gambino family boss John Gotti.
Jhonen C. Vasquez (born September 1, 1974) is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director.
 He is best known for creating the comic book "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac", with its spin-off comics "Squee!
" and "I Feel Sick", and the Nickelodeon animated series "Invader Zim".
The Nostril Picker is a 1993 horror film of the slasher genre.
 The film stars Carl Zschering as Joe Bukowski, a homicidal maniac who uses his special ability to get close to his female targets.
 Despite the name, the film plot does not directly revolve around a man who picks his nose.
 Instead, Joe Bukowski learns a chant from a homeless man in return for a small proportion of his alcoholic beverage, and this chant transforms Joe into a form of anybody he pleases.
 Joe is warned that when the chant is performed excessively it will make him crazy, but chooses to ignore this warning.
 His main victims in the film are teenage girls attending a high school close to his home.
 He takes the form of a girl and makes a 'friendship' with these girls but decides to murder, rape and eat them one by one.

Question: Question: Who wrote the biography of Italian-American mobster regarded as "homicidal maniac"? 

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 Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (often abbreviated JtHM) is the first comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.
 The series tells the story of a young man named Johnny C. as he explores the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders with which he always seems to get away.
 "JtHM" began as a comic strip in the 1990s, then ran under alternative comics publisher Slave Labor Graphics as a limited series of seven issues, later collected in the trade paperback "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut".
 The series produced two spin-offs: "Squee!
" and "I Feel Sick". 

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 William James Remar (born December 31, 1953), is an American actor and voice actor.
 He played Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in "Sex and the City", Ajax in "The Warriors" (1979), homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in the thriller "48 Hrs.
" (1982), gangster Dutch Schultz in "The Cotton Club" (1984), Lord Raiden in "" (1997), Giuseppe Salvatore in The CW TV series "The Vampire Diaries", Jack Duff in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994), and Harry Morgan in the Showtime TV series "Dexter".
 Since 2009, he has done voiceover work in ads for Lexus luxury cars.
 James Remar also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. 

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 Squee is a character in "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". 

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 Hot in December is a crime/suspense novella written by American author Joe R. Lansdale.
 It's the story of a man who witnesses a fatal hit and run incident of one of his good neighbors.
 Tom Chan, the protagonist, gets a good look at the driver who didn't even look back.
 The problem is when Tom identifies the driver he turns out to be the son of the leader of a powerful criminal gang, The Dixie Mafia.
 To keep Tom from testifying, his wife is abducted and his daughter threatened.
 So Tom enlists the help of some old war buddies he served with in Afghanistan to rescue his family and bring justice to the gang of criminals.
 Problem is, one of the friends is a homicidal maniac whose level of violence shocks even Tom. 

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 Philip Carlo (April 18, 1949 – November 8, 2010) was a journalist and best selling biographer of Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso, and Richard Ramirez.
 Carlo suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
 He was bound to a wheelchair and respirator, but retained his ability to speak normally during his lifetime.
 He died of the disease on November 8, 2010 at age 61. 

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 I Feel Sick is a "doubleshot", full-color comic book written and drawn by the comic artist Jhonen Vasquez and colored by Rosearik Rikki Simons (who also voiced GIR in "Invader Zim").
 It revolves around Devi D. from "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" (JTHM), and her dealings with the same supernatural and/or psychological forces that drove Johnny to lunacy.
 Originally intended as a single paperback, it was later split into two issues so as to avoid compromising the length of the story.
 It was published by Slave Labor Graphics.
 Vasquez stated that the creation process of "I Feel Sick" was cathartic.
 The problems Devi had while working for NERVE and neglecting her own work was reminiscent to the pressure Vasquez had while working on "Invader Zim". 

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 Anthony Salvatore "Gaspipe" Casso (born May 21, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an Italian-American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family.
 During his career in organized crime, Casso was regarded as a "homicidal maniac" in the American Mafia, single-handedly killing over 40 to 50 people, and ordering as many as 100 or more murders.
 Former Lucchese captain and government witness Anthony Accetturo once said of Casso, "all he wanted to do is kill, kill, get what you can, even if you didn't earn it."
 In interviews and on the witness stand, Casso has confessed involvement in the murders of Frank DeCicco, Roy DeMeo, and Vladimir Reznikov.
 Casso has also admitted to several attempts to murder Gambino family boss John Gotti. 

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 The Nostril Picker is a 1993 horror film of the slasher genre.
 The film stars Carl Zschering as Joe Bukowski, a homicidal maniac who uses his special ability to get close to his female targets.
 Despite the name, the film plot does not directly revolve around a man who picks his nose.
 Instead, Joe Bukowski learns a chant from a homeless man in return for a small proportion of his alcoholic beverage, and this chant transforms Joe into a form of anybody he pleases.
 Joe is warned that when the chant is performed excessively it will make him crazy, but chooses to ignore this warning.
 His main victims in the film are teenage girls attending a high school close to his home.
 He takes the form of a girl and makes a 'friendship' with these girls but decides to murder, rape and eat them one by one. 

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Answer: Philip Carlo