Media Release -- From the creative team of writer Brian Schirmer and artist Claudia Balboni comes the weird western tale of BLACK JACK KETCHUM, collecting issues #1-4 in trade paperback this June.
In a dreamlike version of the Old West, Tom Ketchum struggles to clear his name—and stay alive—when he's mistaken for wanton outlaw "Black Jack" Ketchum. With the aid of his talking sidearm, a secretive gambler, and a mute girl with a Winchester, Tom evades the mysterious Union and its supernatural enforcers, the faceless Dusters.
BLACK JACK KETCHUM TP (ISBN 9781632157034) hits comic book stores on Wednesday, June 8 and bookstores on Tuesday, June 14, and will be available for $14.99. It can be ordered by retailers through Diamond Book Distributors with the Diamond Code MAR160615. It can be preordered now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Indigo.
Praise for BLACK JACK KETCHUM:
"Black Jack Ketchum is an exciting spin on the Weird Western, an explosion of iconography from a major new talent!"—Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Wolverine)
"It's the Weird Western turned Lynchian."—Kieron Gillen (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE)
"9 out of 10. A completely unexpected and wholly welcome addition to a revived genre, and like East of West, it opens a doorway to the weird through the shopfront of the familiar."—Newsarama
"An odd but compelling read, Black Jack Ketchum presents a supernatural mystery in the last wild place of the American frontier; a place where anything can happen and it does."—Fangoria
"A mind-bending supernatural thriller."—Big Comic Page
"Black Jack Ketchum is a gun-toting whirlwind, a 'wilder' west if you will. I'm excited to see where it goes."—Jim Zub (WAYWARD, Samurai Jack)
"If David Lynch did a Western, it might be a lot like Black Jack Ketchum."—Newsarama
"It is righteous good, man. Schirmer has serious chops. Definitely pick this up!!"—Greg Rucka
