Ain't No Grave - by Skottie Young (Paperback)

About the Book

"Ryder put her violent past behind her when she fell in love and became a mother. But that was before she learned it was all going to be taken away. It's not the first time Ryder has been wanted. She picks her guns back up and rides to the city at the edge of the world to kill the one trying to rob her of her life...death."--

Book Synopsis

"A truly promising and potent slice of highly emotional, semi-magical western storytelling." --AIPT

An original macabre Western/fantasy tale, told through a Guillermo Del Toro-esque lens.

Ryder put her violent past behind her when she fell in love and became a mother. But that was before she learned it was all going to be taken away. It's not the first time Ryder has been wanted. She picks her guns back up and rides to the city at the edge of the world to kill the one trying to rob her of her life...death.

Eisner Award-winning writer SKOTTIE YOUNG and Eisner Award-nominated artist JORGE CORONA, the team behind the hit series MIDDLEWEST and THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK, are back together with a brand new genre-bending tale of love, loss, bullets and death, AIN'T NO GRAVE!

Select praise for Ain't No Grave:

"A truly promising and potent slice of highly emotional, semi-magical western storytelling." --AIPT

"The masterful storytelling combined with stellar artwork creates a synergy that elevates this comic above others." --Capes & Tights

"I love the comic panel coloring, each panel is detailed to each character." --Nerd Initiative

Review Quotes

"I love the comic panel coloring, each panel is detailed to each character."-- "Nerd Initiative"

"The masterful storytelling combined with stellar artwork creates a synergy that elevates this comic above others."-- "Capes & Tights"

About the Author

Skottie Young got his start at Marvel on titles like Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider Clan, Human Torch, and Venom. He soon began adapting the L. Frank Baum Land of Oz novels at Marvel with Eric Shanower. He is best known for writing and drawing the hit series Rocket Raccoon, illustrating the children's book Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman, and the Young Marvel variant covers. He's also the cartoonist of I Hate Fairyland and writer/co-creator of Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with artist/co-creator Jorge Corona, and artist/co-creator of Twig with writer Kyle Strahm.

Jorge Corona is a Venezuelan sequential artist and the winner of the 2015 Russ Manning Award. A writer and illustrator, his works include We are... Robin, Nightwing, and The Flash for DC Comics; Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack, Adventure Time Comics, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Dragons, and others for BOOM! Studios. Corona is also the co-creator of Goners and No. 1 With A Bullet (Nominated for the 2018 Eisner Awards for Best Cover Artist) alongside Jacob Semahn for Image Comics, and creator of Feathers, his all-ages dark fantasy, for Archaia Entertainment.

Corona is the illustrator and co-creator of Image Comic's Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with writer Skottie Young. Jorge lives in Denver, CO with his wife and fellow artist, Morgan Beem.