The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand, a True Crime/Western Graphic Novel Vic Carrabotta, legendary Marvel comic book artist, reads about Earl Durand, and brings the greatest crime spree of Wyoming's history—The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand—back to life and notoriety! What happens: March 13, 1939. Near Cody, Wyoming game wardens stop a car. Inside, Earl Durand, two teen-aged friends, and Emil Knopp, one of the boys' father-and a trunkful of poached elk meat. As the car slows down Durand jumps out, runs into the night, rifle in hand. Eleven days later, March 24, four men dead from Durand's rifle and Earl in a mountain lair where no one can get at him. Two dozen Montana National Guardsmen armed with howitzer and mortar, a dozen posse men—professional hunting guides—, and a plane loaded with dynamite bombs and fire tear-gas canisters—comb the mountain to flush Earl out. It's not over yet. From elk poach to the end. Woe to all who these events touched. Vic read the book when he was 91 and tells the story of what happened in pictures with words from the book. A true Western tragedy pictured by a legendary artist.