Some records! For the final two years I have been working in secret on a new graphic current with Matt Kindt and David Rubin…COSMIC DETECTIVE! Or no longer it is now are dwelling on Kickstarter. Matt and I possess determined to return to our roots, appropriate esteem when we first met every various and grew to change into company at tiny press expos within the early 2000’s. We are able to be self-publishing the ebook and hope you will take into story backing us! The overall particulars, and a few preview art work, underneath…
Bestselling Writers Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt
and Internationally Acclaimed Artist David Rubín
Most in vogue COSMIC DETECTIVE on Kickstarter
An New Sci-fi Mystery Graphic Fresh (and Playing Cards)
For over two years bestselling writers Jeff Lemire (BLACK HAMMER; DESCENDER), Matt Kindt (BANG!; MIND MGMT), and internationally acclaimed artist David Rubín (ETHER; BEOWULF) possess worked in secret on an all new, customary graphic current. The ebook, titled COSMIC DETECTIVE, is an account science fiction thriller that asks: when a God is murdered, who solves the crime?
In COSMIC DETECTIVE, a God is realized ineffective. Detestable play is suspected. Nonetheless who investigates the raze of a god? No longer appropriate anybody, that’s for damn certain. Enter our Detective. He’s bought a well-known other, a kid, and a reputedly customary day job as a non-public sight. Nonetheless for years, he’s been working for a secret underground cabal of gloomy figures, an organization committed to an uneasy alliance with cosmic forces past our imagining.
“Matt and I possess had a likelihood to collaborate within the past, but by no methodology to make our enjoy world and our enjoy mythology,” acknowledged Jeff Lemire. “We wanted to assemble one thing unfamiliar and mysterious, an world stuffed with big concepts that we knew David’s insane visual creativeness would thrive in.”
In COSMIC DETECTIVE, the raze of the god threatens to unhinge the gods and sprint apart the very cloth of our truth. Handiest our detective stands within the variety of insist destruction. Nonetheless will the thriller he uncovers be worse than the catastrophe he’s making an are attempting to avert? And might per chance well merely aloof his thoughts crack underneath the revelations he’s about to repeat outdated to he can affect one thing else about it?
“COSMIC DETECTIVE is against the law legend that channels Jack Kirby, David Lynch, and Raymond Chandler,” acknowledged Matt Kindt. “Or no longer it is a legend grounded in noir that within the destroy becomes absolutely cosmic-bonkers insane.”
Lemire and Kindt are longtime company and low collaborators, and COSMIC DETECTIVE marks their first creator-owned collaboration. The legend was as soon as written particularly for artist David Rubín and his widescreen, cinematic illustrations. Rubín beforehand collaborated with Lemire on SHERLOCK FRANKENSTEIN, from Lemire’s BLACK HAMMER Universe, and Rubín co-created and illustrated ETHER with Matt Kindt.
“We will also merely are dwelling in various countries—with Matt within the US, Jeff in Canada, and myself in Spain—but now we possess all met in person, and, more importantly, all of us treasure to plot, to make, and command studies,” acknowledged David Rubín. “The three of us possess worked together outdated to and all of us know every various neatly, both our sturdy aspects and our weaknesses. With COSMIC DETECTIVE, we’re doing your entire issues we esteem to affect, and at the identical time, forging a brand new direction in our careers.”
“One in all the causes that we’re bringing COSMIC DETECTIVE to Kickstarter is that it allows us to make chilly extras that we’re going to also no longer affect with a old college creator,” acknowledged Kindt. “For the Kickstarter we’re making COSMIC DETECTIVE playing cards, that comprises David Rubín’s sight popping character designs.”
COSMIC DETECTIVE will be presented in an oversized, deluze layout hardcover (8 ¾ x 11/58”), providing readers an immersive abilities, with elephantine color art work and more than one bombastic gatefold pages of art work and legend. This Kickstarter abnormal model will comprise formula that is doubtlessly no longer available wherever else after the Kickstarter is over – including abnormal art work made in particular for this restricted model volume. The COSMIC DETECTIVE playing cards are furthermore a Kickstarter abnormal.
About The Creators:
Jeff Lemire is a Fresh York Instances bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Dismal Hammer, Descender, Royal Metropolis, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects comprise a range of sequence and customary graphic novels, including the delusion sequence Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
Matt Kindt is the Fresh York Instances bestselling author and artist of the comics and graphic novels Dept. H, Mind MGMT, Revolver, 3 Story, Tall Gaze, 2 Sisters, and Pistolwhip, as neatly as Justice League of The United States (DC), Spider-Man (Marvel), Cohesion, Ninjak, Rai, and Divinity (Fearless). He has been nominated for 4 Eisner and 6 Harvey Awards (and won as soon as). His work has been published in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Korean. The author lives in St. Louis, MO, along with his well-known other and Dept H. collaborator, the colorist and artist Sharlene Kindt.
David Rubín studied graphic assemble outdated to coming into the realm of comics, animation, and illustration. He illustrated a chain of Robert E. Howard tales in Solomon Kane and immersed himself in a two-volume retelling of the delusion of Hercules in The Hero. His most in vogue published works comprise an adaptation of the account poem Beowulf, two spinoffs of Paul Pope’s Battling Boy, and The Fiction with author Curt Pires. Along with Marcos Prior, he produced the graphic current Sizable Resort Abyss whereas furthermore working on Ether. 
