A few things I’ve neglected to tell you about

I’ve had a very hectic time since Independence Day, and as a consequence, dropped the ball on a few items of importance. Here’s my makeup post.

To Twitter followers of the site–sorry about the avalanche of posts in the past 24 hours or so. The main purpose of the Twitter account is to serve […]

Cover art and preview: Darwyn Cooke’s The Outfit

I posted an ad that featured this cover art earlier. Here is the standalone cover.

I mentioned this on Twitter, but it deserves more attention: a six-page preview for The Outfit (drawn from The Man With the Getaway Face portion) is available here. (Thanks to Matthew.)

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Review: Richard Stark’s Parker: The Man With the Getaway Face by Darwyn Cooke

The Man With the Getaway Face, in case you missed it earlier, is not a freestanding sequel to Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter. Rather, Darwyn has condensed Getaway Face into a prelude to his adaptation of The Outfit, where it will serve as the first chapter when The Outfit is released in October.

It feels […]

Inside back cover: Darwyn Cooke’s The Man With the Getaway Face

Back cover: Darwyn Cooke’s The Man With the Getaway Face

I believe this is also the debut of the cover art for The Outfit.

Thanks, James!

Fellow Parker fan James picked this up for me at WonderCon a few days ago. Pretty great!

The Violent World of Parker gets a hat tip in the introduction! Thanks, Darwyn!

The Man With the Getaway Face will be available at comic shops in July.

I’ll have the back cover for you later this […]

Lineup changes to Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series

[Darwyn Cooke] explains that while the original plan was to adapt the first four books, he found himself hungry to adapt two later books in the series, volumes that would “lend themselves to graphic adaptation in unique and exciting ways.” He decided to cut “The Mourner,” which he describes as […]

Darwyn Cooke’s Parker: The Hunter–French cover

Here is the French cover for the first volume of Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series. We get a literal title translation, “Le Chasseur,” for once. (In France, the novel was entitled “Comme une Fleur,” which translates as “Like a Flower.”)

Thanks to reader Mied, who informs me that the translator is Tonino Benacquista, a renowned […]

Darwyn Cooke’s The Man With the Getaway Face

San Diego, CA (March 26, 2010) – IDW Publishing and award-winning creator Darwyn Cooke are pleased to announce an exclusive prelude to The Outfit, the second of Richard Stark‘s Parker novels that Cooke is adapting. Cooke‘s initial Parker release, The Hunter, has been a critical and popular success, appearing on over 50 […]

Cute fan ad for Darwyn Cooke’s Parker books

Have “cute” and “Parker” ever been in the same sentence before? Well, they’re in the same sentence now: This fan-made ad for Darwyn Cooke’s Parker books is cute.

I recognize Wolverine and Jonah Hex, but who is the fella with the bandages?

Via Almost Darwyn Cooke’s Blog.

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