Cartoonist and animator Stephan Franck and Dark Planet Comics are releasing (Marvel Studios’ What If…?) a new Kickstarter that will bring new material in the Palomino series and a reprint of the hard-to-find Romance in the Age of Space God.
In the Kickstarter, two new volumes will be available in Palomino, the Ringo Award-nominated neo-noir graphic series set in the lost culture of Los Angeles’ country music clubs.
Check out the text solicit followed by art from the new volumes of Palomino below.
A captivating neo-noir crime mystery, PALOMINO begins in 1981 Los Angeles with Eddie Lang, an old-school, hard-ass, hardboiled former Burbank PD detective juggling his 6-nights-a-week gig in the Palomino house band, his P.I. business, and Lisette Lang — his teenage daughter, who might be even more hard-ass and hard boiled than her dad is. But tragedy looms large over their past, and a brand new case that’s hitting a little too close to home upends their lives, sending them each down very dangerous paths. Told with action, suspense, humor, drama, and slice-of-life irony, PALOMINO, 1981 (Volumes 1-3) takes place at the Palomino club’s high watermark, with Eddie leading the investigation in the Wilcox case, while PALOMINO, 1995 (Volume 4-6) takes place in the twilight years of the club, with his now-adult daughter Liz leading the case and bringing the story to its epic conclusion.
“There are certain eternal themes that always seem to come back in my stories,” said Franck. “One of them is family, in all its forms. Whether it’s a father/daughter detective duo in a generational crime-mystery in PALOMINO, or two foster siblings like in ROMANCE IN THE AGE OF THE SPACE GOD, or even a ‘family by choice’ like in SILVER where a band of misfits find each other to recreate a family unit and steal from a castle full of vampires, it’s always an affirmation that — even in worlds that are amoral, cynical and transactional — there are people who will always have your back. It’s on you to find them, let them help you, and never let them go. The core idea is that we’re not alone, and I think that’s something we can all relate to.”
Additionally, Romance in the Age of the Space God, which had a limited first run of 150 copies last year, is getting a second distribution run.
Part Sci-fi thriller, part slice-of-life, and part political satire RITAOTSG drops us into a world not unlike ours, where things once thought impossible have not only happened, but slowly seeped into the fabric of people’s everyday lives (the people in question being adorable little mice).
For more details, visit the Kickstarter now!
