I was cleaning out some old tabs and realized I had meant to mention this earlier but forgot.
This is a Kickstarter project called The Cavalier Mr. Thompson by Rich Tommaso that sounds very interesting. It’s been fully funded so now it’s just a matter of waiting on release dates.
Here’s a bit about the book:
The Cavalier Mr. Thompson is a work that I’ve been writing, planning, sketching and thinking about for the past ten years. That is, until two years ago, when all of the pieces came together and I finally got down to producing this current comic book novel. The Cavalier… is a story loosely based on the life and works of hard-boiled crime writer Jim Thompson, who was raised in West Texas during the 20′s and 30′s. At the same time, Cavalier’s story is very much my own; the cast of characters, their family backgrounds, their motivations, likenesses, personalities–were all my creation. The breakthrough on this project came about when I was reading a biography of Jim Thompson and I discovered how his relationship with his father uncannily mirrored mine with my father. It was this personal connection that spurred me on and got things rolling on Cavalier. The story is set in Big Spring, Texas during a time in America when things were slowly sliding toward what would come to be known as The Great Depression. So, The Cavalier Mr. Thompson is one part American History, one part American Crime Novel.
A 75 page preview (out of 130) can be found here.
