THE ART OF J. GATSBY

In KILLING GATSBY, Jill Gatsby peels back the glittering façade of Hollywood to reveal a dynasty of dysfunction, ambition, and betrayal — starting from the day she ruined her father’s film set at age four and never stopped breaking the fourth wall.

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Told in a blend of graphic novel and memoir, this true story follows Jill’s survival through the explosive, drug-fueled, and fame-choked chaos of the Cohen family.

 

Her father, cult filmmaker Larry Cohen, directed horror movies by day and staged real-life nightmares at home.

 

Her aunt, Ronni Chasen, would become a powerful publicist — and a murder mystery decades later. Her brothers? Violent, unchecked predators. Her protectors?

 

A Scottish nanny with burn scars, a broom-wielding housekeeper named Betty, and a teddy bear named Fuzzball.

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From Coldwater Canyon to Paris, from London to New York’s Upper East Side, Jill rides shotgun through decades of Hollywood excess and family implosion — getting baptized, hospitalized, silenced, cast out, and finally, reborn.

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But this is no pity memoir.

 

It’s The Godfather meets Carrie meets Get Out — a story of a girl who wasn’t supposed to survive, and yet learned to walk through fire in tap shoes. It's illustrated with raw, surreal, often terrifying drawings channeled straight from the subconscious — each one exposing what the family, the press, and the industry tried to hide.

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Darkly funny, politically furious, and unflinchingly intimate, KILLING GATSBY is a reckoning with generational trauma, artistic defiance, and the power of telling the truth out loud — even if it means torching the myth of the American dream along the way.