The Daily Mobster is a digitally created graphic novel which tells the tale of The Kid, a mistreated orphan who survives an assassination attempt at his orphanage. Alongside this, we’re introduced to various, larger than life and very distinctive gangsters making their moves in the city’s underworld.

Described as a ‘cinematic graphic novel’, there are currently four chapters (of a proposed 25) available to read for free on The Daily Mobster website.

There’s a very mean spirited tone to several elements of the story in this opening chapter, and true to its noir stylings, there’s not much in the way of light, from a tonal point of view. It’s very compelling though, and written with a pace best described as breakneck.

True to the description of the graphic novel as cinematic, the digital art has a grainy, filmic treatment, and there’s a very stop motion-esque feel to its characters and settings. I adored the stylised nature of the gangsters (particularly the very angular mobster, The Wall), and every single character feels very distinctive and unique.

Chapter One sets the wheels in motion for the rest of the series very well indeed, with a surprisingly mystical element to the beginning, and exposition nicely delivered via the tried and true method of newspaper articles.

It’s great stuff, and very refreshing that the website goes to great pains to remind you that it’s all fully created by humans; there’s no awkward, AI-generated nonsense here.

If you do want to check out the unique, cinematic storytelling of The Daily Mobster, check out the graphic novel’s  website. Many thanks to The Daily Mobster’s co-creator, Slavik IA, for bringing the graphic novel to my attention.

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