Media Release -- In this sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard's fan-favorite Queen of the Black Coast, Conan turns his back on the civilized world and takes to the high seas alongside the pirate queen B'lit, setting the stage for an epic of romance, terror, and swashbuckling.
This is Conan as you've never seen him, with the combination of one of Robert E. Howard's greatest tales and the most dynamic creative team in comics!
Now available for order in the DEC11 Previews catalog!
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CREATORS BRIAN WOOD AND BECKY CLOONAN
Brian Wood is one of the most distinctive writers in American comics and the cocreator of a string of celebrated original series, including Channel Zero, Demo, Local, DMZ, Northlanders, and The Massive. He is also known for innovative takes on preexisting characters in Marvel's Generation X, Wildstorm's DV8, and Dark Horse's Conan the Barbarian. Gaining enough success to write comics full time, Wood left his day job doing graphic design for video-game franchises such as Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne in 2003, though his cutting-edge designs still grace the covers of both his own comics series and others. His writing and cover designs have earned him five Eisner Award nominations. Wood lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Cartoonist and illustrator Becky Cloonan has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the comics field since her start in self-published minicomics and with the Meathaus Collective. Her first major comics project was a collaboration with writer Brian Wood on Channel Zero: Jennie One, and since then the two have worked together on Demo, Northlanders, and Conan the Barbarian. Cloonan is also the creator of East Coast Rising; a contributor to Flight, Strange Tales, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and a cocreator and copublisher of Pixu: The Mark of Evil and 5, for which she received an Eisner Award for Best Anthology. Cloonan's illustrations have been featured in GQ and Rock Sound and in projects with bands My Chemical Romance and CunninLynguists.
On sale February 08 • FC, 32 pages • $3.50 •
"Though both Wood and Cloonan are revered in part for work that explores youth and contemporary culture, classic Conan fans can count on a fantasy narrative pulled straight out of the Hyborian Age." — Comics Alliance
