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Out of Alcatraz #1 reveals a murderer’s row of cover artists

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

THEIR COVER IS BLOWN! Oni Press has unveiled a fleet of arresting covers for Out of Alcatraz #1, the must-read new series coming in March 2025! A relentlessly paced and visually breathtaking original limited series with a double-sized, 48-page debut from Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Cantwell and Russ Manning Award-winning and Eisner Award-nominated illustrator Tyler Crook, Out of Alcatraz #1 will see Crook joined by a selection of riveting covers from Valeria Burzo, Massimo Carnevale, Tyler Crook, Oliver Dominguez, and Hayden Sherman!

Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who’s also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border – if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been.

Pairing Christopher Cantwell – creator of critically heralded TV milestone Halt and Catch Fire and co-showrunner of The Terror’s upcoming return on AMC – and Tyler Crook – the master illustrator behind series like Harrow County with Cullen Bunn, The Unbelievable Unteens with Jeff Lemire, and his own series Lonesome Hunters – together for the first time, Out of Alcatraz #1 begins a harrowing epic of killers and convicts every bit as cold as Alcatraz Island itself, as told across five lavishly painted issues from two Eisner-nominated storytellers at the peak of their powers.

Born from one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, this taut, five-issue American odyssey follows history’s most notorious fugitives as they desperately race for freedom through the California countryside … leaving a trail of wreckage, bodies, and painful revelations in their wake. Their escape begins…only in Out of Alcatraz #1, coming in March 2025 from Oni Press!

Christopher Cantwell, Tyler Crook, and Oni Press break Out of Alcatraz in March 2025

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

THEY CAN RUN. THEY CAN HIDE. BUT THEY CAN NEVER ESCAPE FATE! Oni Press has unveiled one of 2025’s most compelling new series with Out of Alcatraz #1 – a relentlessly paced and visually breathtaking original limited series beginning in March with a double-sized, 48-page debut from Eisner Award–nominated writer Christopher Cantwell and Russ Manning Award–winning and Eisner Award–nominated illustrator Tyler Crook! Born from one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, this taut, five-issue American odyssey follows history’s most notorious fugitives as they desperately race for freedom through the California countryside … leaving a trail of wreckage, bodies, and painful revelations in their wake.

Out of Alcatraz #1 begins a harrowing epic of killers and convicts every bit as cold as Alcatraz Island itself, as told across five lavishly painted issues from two Eisner-nominated storytellers at the peak of their powers.

The race to escape the shadow of America’s most infamous prison begins this March in Out of Alcatraz #1 – the double-sized, 48-page page first issue featuring covers by co-creator Tyler Crook, Oliver Dominguez, Valeria Burzo, Massimo Carnevale, and Hayden Sherman.