Night People - Hardcover

by Barry Gifford (Author), Chris Condon (Author), Brian Level (Illustrator)

FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT'S ALWAYS MIDNIGHT . . .

From the mind of writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), adapted by That Texas Blood's Chris Condon and a rotating cast of visionary artists--including Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Alexandre Tefenkgi (The Good Asian), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) and Marco Finnegan (The Keeper)--come four interconnected stories of convicts, lost souls, and human monsters journeying through a labyrinth of perversion, religious dogma, and murder in the Deep South.

A pair of murderous lovers in Florida carrying out a bloody agenda. A perverse political and religious power struggle between a brother and a sister. An easygoing drifter who suddenly finds himself a fugitive on the run. And a bright-eyed young girl discovering her place in the cold dark world. At the end of the twentieth century, chaos and horror were the American dream.

Collecting Night People #1-4.

Author Biography

Barry Gifford's novel Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati, established by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia, in Italy. He has won awards for fiction from the writers guilds in America and the United Kingdom, a BAFTA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, among others. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. His film credits include Wild at Heart (winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, and The Phantom Father. He has written librettos for operas by Toru Takemitsu, Ichiro Nodaira, and Olga Neuwirth. His most recent books include Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020, Southern Nights (which includes Night People), and Ghost Years. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chris Condon is the low-down dirty scoundrel behind the ongoing Image Comic series That Texas Blood and its acclaimed Wild West spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, both with artist Jacob Phillips. He waded deep into bayou waters to adapt Barry Gifford's Night People for Oni Press and has not been the same since.

Alexandre Tefenkgi is an international comic book artist of Vietnamese-Djiboutian descent. He's the visual creator of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comics The Good Asian with Pornsak Pichetshote, as well as the postapocalyptic love story Once Upon a Time at the End of the World with Jason Aaron. He specializes in character-driven stories and emotional poetry. His craft is devoted to expressing the complexity of human relationships.

Artyom Trakhanov is a Siberian comic artist and video game illustrator living in Belgrade. He has worked on Undertow (Image Comics), Turncoat (Boom! Studios), The 7 Deadly Sins (TKO Presents) and First Knife (Image Comics).

Marco Finnegan is a cartoonist who lives in California with his family. Finnegan's previous books include Morning Star (Mad Cave), Night People #3 (Oni), 007 (Dynamite, The Keeper (Abrams), Lizard in a Zoot Suit (Lerner), and a bunch more.