Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Team Up for New FALCONSPEARE Graphic Novel
Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell are teaming up for a new original graphic novel this fall: Falconspeare. This graphic novel will feature the characters Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in an eerie Victorian-style mystery. There will be horror. There will be humor. There will be the same charming twists that fans of Mignola and Johnson-Cadwell have come to appreciate. Falconspeare is being written and illustrated by Johnson-Cadwell with letters by Clem Robins.
Monster hunters extraordinaire Professor Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Van Sloan have teamed up to slay spooks and investigate the uncanny before, but now they'll tackle a question that's haunted them for years: What happened to their friend and vampire slayer extraordinaire, James Falconspeare?
Talking about this new graphic novel, Johnson-Cadwell said:
Evil lurks among dark shadows and in many forms. The vampire, the werewolf, monsters of all kinds. We need a particular kind of hero to thwart these evils, and Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Mary Van Sloan are just those heroes. A cryptic correspondence sets them on a mysterious path which will lead them to diabolic danger and grim reality where evil may lie. Diabolic evil is revealed in grim reality, and an ultimate sacrifice is demanded. Their encounters with evil continue.
Mignola added:
Mr. Higgins Comes Home was a silly little story that basically wrote itself, inspired by old movies both Warwick and I love. I certainly didn’t imagine it would lead to other things, but seeing Warwick take those couple of characters from the original and create a whole world around them has been a real joy. I hope he’s having as much fun making these books as he appears to, because (now that I can just enjoy them as reader) I never want him to stop.
Falconspeare will be available from Dark Horse Comics at comic shops on September 29 and bookstores on October 12. The cover is illustrated by Mignola and colored by Dave Stewart.
