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Celebrate 21 years of Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy with The Shaolin Cowboy: Beginning of the End Results—21 Years of Blood, Sweat, and Chainsaws

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Geof Darrow’s Eisner and Inkpot Award-winning Shaolin Cowboy series celebrates 21 years in print this year, and to honor that anniversary, Dark Horse Books will be collecting all of the essential stories in a brand-new collection, The Shaolin Cowboy: Beginning of the End Results—21 Years of Blood, Sweat, and Chainsaws. This hardcover book includes essential Shaolin Cowboy stories for all fans of the legendary and renowned artist Geof Darrow’s brilliantly detailed artwork. It will be available in December 2025.

Collected in this special anniversary deluxe hardcover edition are The Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek and the long out-of-print fan-favorite Bourbon Thret comics from Comics and Stories, originally published in France by Moebius’ publishing house Ædena, and featuring coloring by Lovern Kindzierski, Alex Wald, Pete Doherty, Nicole Thenan, Yves and Jean-Jaques Chagnaud, Isabelle Beaumenay, François Boucq, Gérard Bouysse, Gaetano Liberatore, and Mœbius with lettering by Doherty. What lies ahead are more than two hundred pages where every single panel is a work of art. You can look at these pages for years and always find something new in the details.

Showcasing the essence of the Shaolin Cowboy over the last two decades, this commemorative and epic publication is a truly stunning must-have collection of art for Geof Darrow fans everywhere.

The Shaolin Cowboy: Beginning of the End Results—21 Years of Blood, Sweat, and Chainsaws (256 pages, 8” x 12”, hardcover) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on December 9 and 10, 2025. It is now available for pre-order at Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop or bookstore for $34.99.

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Dark Horse presents Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin – Silent But Deadly Edition

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Geof Darrow’s highly praised Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin series will be presented in a new oversized edition perfect for admirers of Darrow’s incredibly detailed artwork. The Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin—Silent but Deadly Edition is set to arrive in Fall 2024. The Silent but Deadly Edition presents Darrow’s art and Dave Stewart’s coloring without lettering.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then more than 205 pages of the stupendous and technicolor art of Dave Stewart and the dubious letterless box drawings of Geof Darrow must be worth at least…well…you do the math. But that’s what you are going to get when Dark Horse presents the king-size Silent but Deadly Edition edition of the The Shaolin Cowboy epic “Cruel to Be Kin.” No words to slow you down, no philosophy to burden your tic-tocked brain—just pure unadulterated and uncensored, pedal to the metal, full color, kung fu, six gun, barn-burning action as only Stewart and Darrow can deliver. No valium nor Xanax can help you with this pulse-pounding tome. If you think you know the whole story you don’t! So light a match and crack open the window of your imagination and take a deep breath of the CRUEL TO BE KIN SILENT BUT DEADLY edition!!! Geof Said Non-Believer!

Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin—Silent but Deadly Edition (240 pages,8”x12”) collects Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1-7 without lettering and arrives in bookstores on September 17, 2024 and in comic shops September 18, 2024. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore for $49.99.

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Preview: Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 (of 7)

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 (of 7)

(W) Geof Darrow (A/CA) Geof Darrow
In Shops: May 18, 2022
SRP: $4.99

In Phase 4 of the SCU, the Shaolin Cowboy finds his parenting skills being tested when he is forced to homeschool during a pandemic of unparalleled violence, in this story torn from yesterday’s viral twitter feeds.

Can he get a kung fu grip on the situation before a horde of .45 loving human monsters and not so human monsters send him to the ICU?

Only guns, swords, and flying guillotines will tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AMITOUFU!!!!!!

Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 (of 7)

Preview: Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 (of 7)

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 (of 7)

(W) Geof Darrow (A/CA) Geof Darrow
In Shops: May 18, 2022
SRP: $4.99

Can he get a kung fu grip on the situation before a horde of .45 loving human monsters and not so human monsters send him to the ICU?

Only guns, swords, and flying guillotines will tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AMITOUFU!!!!!!

Dark Horse To Publish Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

This year, Dark Horse Comics will publish Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin, an all-new, seven part comic book series of action-packed intellectual drama by award-winning Geof Darrow and Eisner award-winning colorist Dave Stewart. The latest installment in the Eisner-Award-winning Shaolin Cowboy series is set in Phase 4 of the SCU, where the Shaolin Cowboy finds his parenting skills being tested when he is forced to homeschool during a pandemic of unparalleled violence, in a story torn from yesterday’s viral twitter feeds. Can he get a kung fu grip on the situation before a horde of .45 loving human monsters and not so human monsters send him to the ICU? Only guns, swords, and flying guillotines will tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For nearly twenty years, Darrow’s been creating stories for the Shaolin Cowboy that are chock full of monsters, carnage, copses, and chainsaws. For the latest, epic Shaolin Cowboy series, some of the biggest names in comics will provide variant covers:

issue #1: Mike Mignola
issue #1: Alice Darrow
issue #2: Frank Quitely
issue #2: Ed Piskor
issue #3: Stan Sakai
issue #3: Steve Skroce
issue #4: Duncan Fegredo
issue #4: Jim Rugg
issue #5: Katsuya Terada
issue #6: James Harren
issue #7: Tsui Hark

Dark Horse Comics will publish Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin issue 1 on May 18, 2022.

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Geof Darrow’s Complete Shaolin Cowboy Odyssey Comes to Paperback in 2021

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team

Since his first appearance sixteen years ago, Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy has been slaughtering zombies, beheading idiots, and leaving a trail of carnage and corpses in his wake. And next year, for the first time ever, Dark Horse Books will publish Darrow’s complete Shaolin Cowboy odyssey in paperback. Beginning with the release of Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet in April 2021, Dark Horse will release three paperback editions of the Shaolin Cowboy’s adventures, with each book featuring an all-new cover by Darrow and Eisner Award-Winning Colorist Dave Stewart.

Having won the Inkpot Award, won (and lost) multiple Eisner Awards and created the iconic and blood-soaked character the Shaolin Cowboy, cartoonist Geof Darrow is one of the most influential and revered cartoonists. As Vulture says, “no one draws violence quite like Geof Darrow.” In addition to the chainsaw-fueled adventures of the Shaolin Cowboy, Darrow is renowned for his early work with Moebius, his designs for television and films, his collaborations with Frank Miller and Andrew Vachss, and his iconic and detailed comic book covers. Darrow originally hails from Cedar Rapids, IA and now resides in France.

Dark Horse will publish the Shaolin Cowboy paperbacks in consecutive months:

Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet is available everywhere books are sold starting April 20, 2021. This paperback will retail for $19.99. It is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop.

Shaolin Cowboy: Who Will Stop the Reign is available everywhere books are sold starting May 18, 2021. This paperback will retail for $19.99. It is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop.

Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek is available everywhere books are sold starting June 22, 2021. This paperback will retail for $19.99.

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Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek Returns to Print

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Graphic Policy Team

Having won the Inkpot Award, won (and lost) multiple Eisner Awards and created the iconic and blood-soaked character the Shaolin Cowboy, cartoonist Geof Darrow is one of the most influential and revered cartoonists.

This summer, Dark Horse Books will boldly go where they have never gone before when they publish Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek and bring a classic, hard-to-find masterpiece back into print. Originally published as a seven issue comic book series by Burlyman Entertainment, the story garnered Darrow the Eisner Award in 2006 for Best Writer/ Artist. The Dark Horse Books edition marks the story’s first ever hardcover publication and features a new cover by Darrow and award-winning colorist Dave Stewart and the complete seven-issue saga written and illustrated by Darrow and colored by Pete Doherty, Alex Wald, and Lovern Kindzierski, as well as classic Shaolin Cowboy illustrations by Moebius (Jean Giraud), Richard Delgado, Mike Mignola, Kevin Nowlan, and John Severin.

In Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek, the Shaolin Cowboy walks the action-packed path of three enemies. Those from the past, who still pursue him, those from the future who are waiting for him, and those from the present who find killing him isn’t going to be as easy as he looks.

Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek will be published by Dark Horse in comic book stores on July 11 and in bookstores on July 17, 2018 as an 8X10 hardcover retailing for $24.00.

Writer/Artist Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy Returns in 2017

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Graphic Policy Team

Get a kung-fu grip on yourself as Geof Darrow’s blood-spattered killing machine the Shaolin Cowboy returns this April in a new four-issue mini-series to be published by Dark Horse Comics. The Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign? will be written and illustrated by Darrow, who has won the Inkpot Award and won (and lost) multiple Eisner Awards, and colored by the Eisner Award-winning Dave Stewart. The first issue will have a main cover by Darrow and Stewart and a variant cover by the award-winning Frank Miller, Darrow’s co-contributor on Hard Boiled and Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot.

In The Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign?, the titular hero of the series finds that his road to hell is paved not with good intentions but old nemeses hell-bent on bloody revenge.

Shaolin Cowboy Returns For New Series!

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Brett

Official Press Release

GEOF DARROW’S SHAOLIN COWBOY RETURNS IN AN ALL-NEW THREE ISSUE SERIES FROM DARK HORSE!

NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 14– Five years after it’s initial run ended, Geof Darrow’s (Hard Boiled, Big Guy and Rusty) returns in 2012!

Originally published by Burlyman Entertainment, Shaolin Cowboy is a loaf of wry in a wonder bread world, a nicotine patch in a ten pack-a-day universe. He wonders as he wanders through a world where yesterday, today and tomorrow exist in a collage of carnage of his own making!

“Geof Darrow’s relationship with Dark Horse goes back to the early days of the company. I can’t tell you how excited I am to again be publishing his amazing work” said Dark Horse president, Mike Richardson. “Geof’s art literally stopped me in my tracks when I first met him more than two decades ago and his work is every bit as stunning today. Geof has influenced a generation of artists and I am proud and excited to have him back partnered with Dark Horse.”

Shaolin Cowboy returns with all-new stories in 2012!

Around the Tubes

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Brett

New York Comic Con has come and gone. We’ll have lots of posts, reviews, photos and some video. But for now, here’s the news you might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

Fox News – Islam-Based Superheroes: Here to Save the Day or Villains in Disguise? – Fox takes on The 99 (ignores Newscorps’ bashing of it).

The Daily Star – Muslim comic series seeks breakthrough in U.S. – And another take on The 99.

Kotaku – Sunday Comics: Upright and Locked – Each week Kotaku brings some of the best web comics out there.

Con Coverage:

Kotaku – New York Comic-Con 2011 Day Four Cosplay with Dead Space Kid and Super Friends

Kotaku – NYCC 2011 Day Two in Pictures

Kotaku – The DC Superhero Statues of New York Comic-Con

The Beat – NYCC 2011: Days Three and Four

Bleeding Cool – The Cosplay Gallery Of New York Comic Con, Courtesy Of Marnie Ann Joyce

IGN – NYCC: Brian Wood’s Wolverine Emerges

IGN – NYCC: Rogue’s Legacy Continues