Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

"“Murder is a kind of making love, a kind of possessing,” a young Patricia Highsmith wrote in her journal, angry and conflicted by her queerness. By visualizing the context that gave rise to The Price of Salt (later retitled Carol) – Highsmith’s iconic lesbian romance with a happy ending, and from which the title Flung Out of Space derives – Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer show how Highsmith’s self-loathing, sexual passion and aesthetic sublimation, vividly yet dispassionately rendered in panels of black, gray and orange, shaped the trajectory of her genre-defying fiction, where guilt and transcendence are inextricably bound."