Saddle Up with Black Jack Ketchum Writer Brian Schirmer Interview

Brian Schirmer By: Nicole D’Andria A fantasy western adventure, Black Jack Ketchum is an upcoming Image Comics publication. I interviewed writer Brian Schirmer (Ultrasylvania) about the four issue mini-series including his real relationship to the historical figure Black Jack Ketchum.   Me: You mentioned that you had familial ties to Tom Ketchum. Can you talk about your connection to him and what he was supposedly like in real-life and in the comic? Brian Schirmer: Black Jack Ketchum is a distant relative. Great-grandmother on my mother’s side was a cousin. As…

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Black Jack Ketchum: A Fantasy Western Adventure Missing Some Faces

By: Nicole D’Andria Are fantasy western series the new “it” thing to do? First Greg Pak presented magic, racism and westerns in his announcement for Kingsway West at Dynamite Entertainment. Now, Image Comics’ has announced Black Jack Ketchum, a western fantasy adventure about a real historical figure and bounty hunters with no faces (they are not historically accurate). Black Jack Ketchum takes place in a fantastical version of the Old West. Writer Brian Schirmer (Ultrasylvania) described the atmosphere of the meshing of genres in the series as “…a surreal western,…

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