Coming in 2015 from Dark Horse Comics, it looks like Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt are teaming up to bring you the first in a series of brand new all-ages graphic novels.
Satrring Poppy Pepperton, a ten-year-old girl with a typographic memory, the series will see Poppy on “globe-spanning adventures” alongside her pal Colt Winchester. The first of the series, “Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon,” will see Poppy in New York dealing with Ramses MV, a “reincarnated Egyptian king now cursed to remain in his lavish Manhattan penthouse.” Which sounds about as hilariously adorable as I’m sure it will ultimately be upon release.
Fans of Kindt and Hurtt will probably even know that Kindt and Hurtt have collaborated before on con sketches (as associate editor David Harper will tell you if you ever ask to see his Flash commissions), so it’s exciting to see them teaming up now for an actual release that we can all own. Plus, Kindt has been killing it at Dark Horse month-in and month-out with “Mind MGMT,” and it’ll be exciting to see him and Hurtt dip their toes into the all-ages world on their own after doing a steady stream of comics geared towards older audiences..
For the full press release from Dark Horse, please see below.
Dark Horse Press Release
Matt Kindt, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of MIND MGMT and Red Handed, and Brian Hurtt, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling artist of The Sixth Gun and The Damned, are soon to publish Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon, the first in a new graphic novel series for children. The book follows the story of Poppy Pepperton, a ten-year-old girl with a typographic memory who goes on globe-spanning adventures with her sidekick Colt Winchester (who thinks he’s her legal guardian). Publishers Weekly announced last week that Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon will be published in 2015 by Dark Horse Comics.
When Poppy is summoned by Ramses MV, a reincarnated Egyptian king now cursed to remain in his lavish Manhattan penthouse (long story), she knows to expect something strange. Ramses doesn’t disappoint! He shows her Mummy Mouth, a shrunken mummy head that speaks a riddle once a year. Mummy Mouth gives her a clue that sends Poppy, Colt, and Ramses’s cat Krums to Old Macadamia to investigate the Lost Lagoon and an ancient civilization that lived on the back of a gigantipus (a giant octopus). Along the way she will find mysteries, adventures, friends, and family in the unlikeliest of ways. But a sinister robot is dogging their steps—is it programmed to help them or to stop them from learning an ancient secret?
“It’s been so exciting to see Matt thrive at Dark Horse, and I’m thrilled that he’s continuing that relationship with Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon,” said Dark Horse editor Brendan Wright. “He and Brian are bringing just the right light touch and level of imaginative detail to make a truly fun children’s book. It’s hard to believe this is their first graphic novel in the genre!”
Dark Horse president and publisher Mike Richardson has acquired world English rights from Charlie Olsen of InkWell Management.
Matt Kindt is the New York Times best-selling and Harvey Award–winning writer and artist of the comics and graphic novels MIND MGMT, Red Handed, Revolver, 3 Story, Super Spy, 2 Sisters, and Pistolwhip. Brian Hurtt is the New York Times best-selling artist of the hit fantasy-western series The Sixth Gun. He burst onto the comic scene with the second arc in Greg Rucka’s critically acclaimed series Queen & Country and has since worked on the Queen & Country spinoff Declassified, Skinwalker, and DC’s critically acclaimed Gotham Central, as well as the DC series Hard Time and The Damned. Both authors live and work in the St. Louis metro area.
