Media Release -- David Lapham‘s got a lot going on at Dark Horse Comics. In fact, he may just be writing and drawing a full DH release every month in 2014 and beyond. The Stray Bullets and Young Liars creator’s newest series, Kid McAllister, is set to debut with a 22-page #1 issue in May, while DHP alum Juice Squeezers graduates to a full series with its own brand-new #1 in stores and on Dark Horse Digital in December. Both series fit in with Lapham’s body of work by blending offbeat concepts into character-driven narratives, but while Juice Squeezers follows seemingly normal small town kids in an underground battle against giant bugs, Kid McAllister will see a not-so-normal preteen cowboy doing his best to deal with what could be a secret alien invasion. Just in time for New York Comic Con 2013, CA got in touch with Lapham for the scoop on his big year of Dark Horse launches.
ComicsAlliance: Kid McAllister seems like it’s going to mash up some cool, offbeat concepts. What were some of your inspirations for the story?
David Lapham: I wanted to do something fun and science fiction — or fun science fiction and I just came up with the title. Kid McAlister Electric Cowboy. It just kinda oozed off my brain and there you go. That sparked this notion of a hero with electrical powers who was really old but a side effect of his powers was they kept him from going through puberty. Which made me think he’s had to be a wanderer and a mechanical bull rider and is being chased by aliens, and he has a horse friend. Then I thought up an old sea captain who runs a mechanical bull bar in the desert, and away we go. All pretty logical, right? Basically, it’s a story about a guy searching for somewhere to belong… and aliens.
You can read the full interview at ComicsAlliance.com!
http://comicsalliance.com/dark-horse-announces-david-lapham-kid-mcallister-1-and-juice-squeezers-1-nycc-2013/
