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Strangeways: The Thirsty
Matt Maxwell announced yesterday that his second Strangeways graphic novel, The Thirsty will be in the upcoming Previews catalog under the order code item FEB121066. For those not familiar with it, Strangeways is a series of horror-Western graphic novels written by Maxwell and drawn by Argentinian artists Gervasio and Jok. The first Strangeways novel, Murder Moon plunked former Union officer Seth Collins into the Weird West to confront a werewolf; The Thirsty brings him to a new town infested with vampires.
Maxwell has serialized The Thirsty here on Robot 6 and is currently doing so again on his own site (where you can also read Murder Moon in its entirety), but this will be the first time it’s available in print.
- February 1, 2012 @ 02:00 PM by Michael May
Matt Maxwell announces third Strangeways book
Around here, we’re big fans of Strangeways, Matt Maxwell’s series of horror-Western graphic novels. Maxwelll’s practically family, having serialized his second book The Thirsty on Robot 6, so it’s exciting that he’s now announced the third volume. Whereas Murder Moon was a werewolf tale and The Thirsty featured vampires, The Land Will Know is all about the ghosts. Maxwell calls it “the campfire ghost story reinvented” and describes it as sort of an EC-inspired anthology, but with a bridge story that ties the individual tales together into a single piece.
He’s started announcing artists for the various stories, but more details will be coming later. Gervasio and Jok (who’ve both worked on Strangeways before) will be drawing the bridge story as well as one of the other tales. Benjamin Dewey (Dark Horse Presents), Tom Neely (The Blot, The Wolf), and Tom Fowler (Venom) will each be doing stories as well. Check out Maxwell’s website for more details, samples of the artists’ work, and future updates.
- August 29, 2011 @ 03:00 PM by Michael May
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 130
The final page of STRANGEWAYS: THE THIRSTY here at Robot 6. Debriefing to follow.
My thanks to Gervasio and Jok for their artwork on this series.
Yeah, wrap-up will be coming later. Thanks for reading along, folks.
- April 7, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 129
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
- April 5, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 128
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Still gonna be at Wonder-Con. Still gonna be in the small press area. And I’ll bet you a dollar that nobody will ask for a five minute story, even though I don’t usually charge for them. Betcha.
- March 31, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 127
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
And as a reminder, I’ll be at this weekend’s Wonder-Con in San Francisco, over in the small press area. Probably going to be at the thing at the Isotope on Saturday. And eating at Henry’s Hunan sometime. Mmmm…Hunan ham…
- March 30, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 125
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Dayum.
Back next week.
- March 24, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 124
Less grumpy, but still, don’t poke me.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
Back next week.
- March 17, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – page 123
Long trip back from Seattle plus time change plus bad news = grouchy author. Do not poke grouchy author. Just read pages instead.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
Back Wednesday. Hopefully less grouchy, but wouldn’t bet on it.
- March 15, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 122
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Silent panel. Does it work? Does it not? Still feelin’ that out.
And again, as a reminder, I’ll be up at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this weekend (first big show of the year for me!). I’m in the C’s of Artist’s Alley, so come on by and say hello and remind me that real people do indeed read this strip on a weekly basis, or I’m gonna end up thinking that all my commentors are just figments of my imagination.
As usual, Five Minute Stories will be available for those who ask nicely, provide three words and something to write upon. If you don’t provide those, how can I be expected to provide a story in return? Plenty of show-priced collections of MURDER MOON, as well as the ashcan version of the first chapter of THE THIRSTY. And you can even hit me up for a sketch, but it’ll probably end up coming from my extensive swipe file.
See you back here next week.
- March 10, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 121
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Joe’s dead, baby. Joe’s dead.
Just the first of many reminders, but I’ll be up at the Emerald City Comic Con this weekend, somewhere in the J tables of Artist’s Alley. Looking forward to the show, may even get a chance to see some of it, as I’ll have tablemates to help watch things if I want to stretch my legs. The guys from BRAINS, Anthony Leano and Paul Allen, will be splitting the table with me, so you can wet your horror whistle in more ways than one. Should be a good show.
Hey, anyone know a good Mediterranean/Persian restaurant in Seattle? I could do with some koubideh. Or maybe a nice shawerma.
Back on Wednesday.
- March 8, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – page 120
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Uh-oh. That can’t be the way they planned all that.
See you all next week.
- March 3, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 119
Back on track to two pages a week.
Of course, now that I’ve said that, I’ll cut my pinky off or something…
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Well, looks like someone has a bunch of new best friends.
Let’s see how that works out on Wednesday.
- March 1, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 118
Back on track. Kinda.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
Looks like someone wants to make a couple of real good friends. This oughta end well.
Back next week.
- February 24, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Snowed In.
The funny thing is that there isn’t that much snow on the ground where I am right now (somewhere between Genoa and Minden, NV in the Carson Valley–which is as good a place to set a western as I can think of), but there was enough snow last night to keep me from going over Donner Summit to get home to where I keep all the Strangeways pages, or have a computer that has Photoshop on it.
So no new page today, at least not by the time it’s supposed to be up. So how about a new way to look at an old page?
- February 22, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell