Fantagraphics have been posting little excerpts from this on their Tumblr and it’s caught my attention in a big way. It combines a great two colour fine-lined cartoon style, with the era and genre invoking a Darwyn Cooke Parker feel. Author Rich Tommaso originally published this via Kickstarter last year and now the Cavalier Mr Thompson been picked up by Fantagraphics for release next month: it looks fantastic -lively and humorous. It’s been a while since I’ve been excited about an upcoming book after July’s deluge, so I’ll definitely be grabbing a copy. A synopsis and some preview pictures for your viewing pleasure:
Welcome To Big Spring, Texas and The Cavalier Hotel. A place brimming with all manner of colorful characters – horse thieves, roughnecks, shady lawmen, con men, oil barons, gamblers, bootleggers, flappers, dappers, wildcatters, railroad men, drunkards and murderers…
But Frank Hill, the proprietor of The Cavalier, has a new hotel dick (Nick Ford) to keep a sharp eye on folks who may cause trouble. Along with number one son, Sam Hill, The Cavalier should have been easy to patrol and kept duty free of any sort of criminal or unsavory activity.
That is, until Ross Thompson – a slick operator from Chicago — came into their humble abode and turned everything upside down. Not just the hotel, but the whole damn town! Big Spring was a just string of yarn for Mr. Thompson to pull and pull at, until the entire community came unraveled! Now you’ll have to crack open this here book for yourself to find out just how he done it…
You can see more exceprts here.
Wed, Aug 29, 2012
Comics and cartoons, Upcoming