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London, 1900. The capital hums with the energy of the new era, but something darker lurks beneath the surface. A monstrous figure stalks the city’s criminal underworld at night, leaving a trail of bloody corpses in its wake. Rumours about the mysterious killer spread like wildfire. It’s a demon. A phantom. An angel of vengeance.
Nothing can kill it. Nothing can stop it. And once it picks a new target, well, he better have a coffin picked out, because he’s already dead.
The only clue that a baffled police force has to work with is the black and white feather left on each corpse, leading the press to dub the killer The Magpie.
Is the Magpie killing at random, or is there a pattern that no one else can see? Three individuals, strangers to each other, might together have the answer.
Madame Hendrikov, the Russian medium with an upper-class clientele desperate for the secrets of the dead.
Bess Turner, the East End barmaid caught up in the schemes of an organised crime gang.
And Ignatious Thorn, the world’s most famous consulting detective, brought to ruin by horrific tragedy.
The artistic mastermind behind THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, CAPTAIN CARTER, and CATWOMAN: ONE BAD DAY is back with a new comic unlike anything he’s created before. ONE FOR SORROW is an intensely stylish, supernatural suspense thriller, full of kinetic action, bloody revenge, and ghostly mystery.
One for Sorrow #1 will be released in print and digital forms in June 2024.
Hi. I am incredibly busy, so this is gonna be a quick one. But there it is! The solicit for ONE FOR SORROW issue #1, my first book with DSTLRY. You can see a four-page preview here at the IGN announcement. As well as my two covers, there are some incredible variants available from Tula Lotay, Becky Cloonan, and Junko Mizuno, with more to come!
I’m really excited for this book and I hope you will be, too! I’ve been describing it as “JOHN WICK if it was directed by Guillermo del Toro”, so if that sounds like your kind of thing, I would love it if you could pre-order the comic from your local retailer! It is available through both Diamond and Lunar.
It’s my first solo creator-owned book in over a decade and it’s been really fun getting to write AND draw. AND colour. But I can’t do everything, so I’m lucky to have a great team working with me on the book. The title logo was designed by Cecile Richard, Ariana Maher is doing letters, kai Ellis is doing flats, and it’s edited by Katie West. The team at DSTLRY have been amazing to work with, too! Really encouraging and supportive.
As a little bonus for newsletter subscribers, here's a sneaky couple of panels of some spooky goings-on:
Ah heck, you deserve some character design sketches, too:
Until next time!
J
PS You thought I was going to send this newsletter and not include a picture of my cats? Come on.
