Cartoonist Stephan Franck will launch a Kickstarter next week for the sixth volume of Palomino, his neo-noir graphic novel series, and we’ve got an exclusive look at some of the rewards he’ll offer as part of the campaign.
Available exclusively through the Kickstarter will be a Palomino T-shirt, mug and art print. The campaign will also offer all six volumes of the series, which wraps up in this final volume. Take a look at the merch after the jump.
Franck, a filmmaker/animator who has worked on The Iron Giant, Despicable Me and more, is the son of two comic retailers and a lifelong comic fan. He started his own company, Dark Planet Comics, to publish Silver, a pulp-inspired heist story with vampires. He followed that up with Palomino.
“At first glance, Palomino may feel like a departure from my previous series – the vampire heist saga Silver – but the common thread, as in everything I do, is noir,” Franck said. “Silver was a pulp noir adventure, and Palomino is a neo-noir crime mystery drama, but noir is noir. It’s about people who might be driven by an obsession or by an inconvenient sense of justice, and their inability to let things go, no matter the cost. Most importantly, both series are about family. Families by choice, or families by birth struggling to survive. It’s about that bond that, once given, can’t be taken back. It’s about resistance. Not. Letting. Things. Go.”
Palomino follows Eddie Lang, a former Burbank PD detective working the house band circuit at a Los Angeles country music club in 1981, and his teenage daughter Liz as a new case sends them down dangerous paths. The mystery follows Liz into adulthood, picking up again in 1995 as she works as a reporter and confronts unfinished business from her past.
“Palomino came from a very personal place,” he said. “It combined my passion for LA noir with my love for the long-lost tradition of the California honky-tonks.”
You can find more information on the graphic novel series on the Kickstarter campaign page.
