Media release — Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist turned new York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins as well as artist Marco Finnegan (Last fair offer Gone Down) team up for CROSSROAD BLUES: A NICK TRAVERS graphic NOVEL.
This April, get prepared to discover out why Cully Hamner (Red, The Question, Batman as well as the Signal) says: “To me, Christmas just ain’t Christmas without a full glass—no ice, thanks—and some deep blues. Ace Atkins’ CROSSROAD BLUES is about as deep as it gets, as well as I question you’ll regret it in the morning.”

Adapted from the cherished very first book of the Nick Travers series, CROSSROAD BLUES is a thrilling tale of criminal offense as well as secret that brings the history of the blues as well as the Mississippi Delta to life on every page in moody, atmospheric black-and-white art.

After a new Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson—who, as legend has it, offered his spirit to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads—Nick Travers is sent to discover him. hints point to everybody from an eccentric albino named cracker to a gunman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley.

“Crossroad Blues is where everything started for me,” stated Atkins. “And to see it come to life with Marco’s art, precisely twenty years later, is a genuine thrill. The southern iconography of new Orleans, the Delta, blues music, as well as Elvis Presley work so well for a graphic novel. Can’t wait to subject new visitors to this pop culture mash-up of music, criminal offense writing, as well as art.”

“This book is a dream come true,” stated Finnegan. “Ace is one of my preferred novelists of all time, as well as I’m thrilled to bring his work to comics!”

CROSSROAD BLUES: A NICK TRAVERS graphic book (Diamond code: FEB180513, ISBN: 978-1-5343-0648-6) hits comic book shops Wednesday, April 25th. The final buy cutoff deadline for comics merchants is Monday, March 12th.

It will show up in bookstores Tuesday, may 1st as well as is offered for preorder by means of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, Indigo, as well as Books-A-Million.

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