Conceived in the summer of 2008 by Swifty Lang and Chris Mangun, pitched at NYC Comic Con 2009, this puppy has been in production all last year and now has a release date of the last week in September 2010, published by the good people at Archaia (home of "Mouse Guard" and "Fraggle Rock" and some of the highest quality comics of all genres).
Flip the book over, and it's such an amazing decision on their part to include the entire issue in Spanish!
Thanks for your support - please tell your local comic shop to order you a copy today!
FEEDING GROUND #1 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.95 U.S.
Page Count: 48 pages
Format: saddle bound, 6.625” x 10.25”, full color
Written by Swifty Lang
Illustrated by Michael Lapinski
Cover by Michael Lapinski
This new series is ripped right out of the real-life drama unfolding on the Mexico-Arizona border. FEEDING GROUND reaches a large and diverse audience no matter your personal point of view on the issue. In this factious story, a famine caused by Blackwell Industries drives Diego Busqueda, a noble “coyote,” to lead a band of Mexican border crossers across the unforgiving Devil’s Highway, a desert cursed with blistering days and deadly nights. Back home, Diego’s daughter Flaca discovers that something hungrier prowls the factory fields. Stalked and persecuted, can the Busqueda family maintain their dreams of immigration or will the horrors of the desert tear them apart? Also included is 24 pages of bonus content in Spanish!
T +13 (Contains material suitable for teen readers age 13 and above)
Fantastic! Damn, feels like just yesterday you were shopping the pitch around. Time flies... except for the person actually illustrating the book in which case I'm guessing the last year has felt like 20 for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks GB - I'm sure you can relate!
ReplyDeleteNot that I've ever run a marathon, but making comics seems akin to that level of focused endurance but, for the reader, a fleeting moment in which someone skims across a panel or waves a flag.
Someone hand me a banana.
Holy crap, that's great! I can't wait to get my hands on it.
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