Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Dark Horse Travels Through Time with “ECHOES”


To Stop a Murder, Would You Become a Murderer?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MILWAUKIE, OR—Dark Horse Comics announces the latest original graphic novel from Mike Richardson (Father’s Day, 47 Ronin) and Gabriel Guzmán (Father's Day, Lady Death): Echoes.
Troubled pilot Fred Martin is caught in a bizarre storm and loses control of his aircraft. Martin awakens unharmed, only to discover that he is thirty years in the past with the impossible opportunity to right the wrong that ruined his future. But to prevent murder, will he commit murder?  
Written by Richardson, creator of The Mask and Timecop, and illustrated by Guzmán, Echoes is fantasy drama on a human scale, a provocative journey into how the past is always present.
Echoes (978-1506701233 / $14.99) debuts on November 23, 2016. Preorder your copy today at your local comic shop or through these fine retailers:
*Echoes reunites Father’s Day creative team Richardson and Guzmán.
*Richardson’s 47 Ronin, illustrated by Stan Sakai, was named in the top ten in the 2015 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.
 
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About Mike Richardson 
MIKE RICHARDSON is the President and founder of Dark Horse Comics, the award-winning international publishing house he founded in 1986.  He is also the President of Dark Horse Entertainment, for which he has produced numerous projects for film and television.  Richardson has written numerous graphic novels and comics series, as well as Comics Between the Panels and Blast Off, two critically acclaimed books about pop culture. He lives with his wife Karie and their dog in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
About Gabriel Guzmán
Gabriel Guzmán is a Chilean illustrator best known for his work on Lady Death for Avatar Press, Amory Wars for Image, Cable for Marvel Comics, and Eternal Descent for IDW Publishing, as well as Kull, Conan, Star Wars, and Father’s Day for Dark Horse Comics.
About Dark Horse
For 30 years, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, the company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Geof Darrow, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Stan Sakai, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Milo Manara, Kazuo Koike, Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, X and Barb Wire. Its successful line of comics, manga and products based on popular properties includes Dragon Age, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Tomb Raider, Halo, The Witcher, Serenity, Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.

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