Night People

FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT’S ALWAYS MIDNIGHT . . .

From the mind of writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), adapted by That Texas Blood’s Chris Condon and a rotating cast of visionary artists--including Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Alexandre Tefenkgi (The Good Asian), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) and Marco Finnegan (The Keeper)--come four interconnected stories of convicts, lost souls, and human monsters journeying through a labyrinth of perversion, religious dogma, and murder in the Deep South.

A pair of murderous lovers in Florida carrying out a bloody agenda. A perverse political and religious power struggle between a brother and a sister. An easygoing drifter who suddenly finds himself a fugitive on the run. And a bright-eyed young girl discovering her place in the cold dark world. At the end of the twentieth century, chaos and horror were the American dream.

Collecting Night People #1-4.

Barry Gifford’s novel Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati, established by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia, in Italy. He has won awards for fiction from the writers guilds in America and the United Kingdom, a BAFTA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, among others. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. His film credits include Wild at Heart (winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival), Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, and The Phantom Father. He has written librettos for operas by Toru Takemitsu, Ichiro Nodaira, and Olga Neuwirth. His most recent books include Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Roy’s World: Stories 1973-2020, Southern Nights (which includes Night People), and Ghost Years. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chris Condon is the low-down dirty scoundrel behind the ongoing Image Comic series That Texas Blood and its acclaimed Wild West spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, both with artist Jacob Phillips. He waded deep into bayou waters to adapt Barry Gifford’s Night People for Oni Press and has not been the same since.

Brian Level is a cartoonist, tattooer, writer who has contributed premiere comic books like Star Wars, Batman, Spider-Man, Avengers, and Deadpool. His work has been internationally recognized for over 15 years and won a GLAAD Media Award for his contributions to Poison Ivy for DC Comics. Level brings an element of the horrific and the ecstatic to the projects he touches with the goal of creating timeless, deep, and rich work. He lives with his family in the greater Cincinnati area, where he makes stories and operates Illuminaut Tattoo.

Alexandre Tefenkgi is an international comic book artist of Vietnamese-Djiboutian descent. He’s the visual creator of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comics The Good Asian with Pornsak Pichetshote, as well as the postapocalyptic love story Once Upon a Time at the End of the World with Jason Aaron. He specializes in character-driven stories and emotional poetry. His craft is devoted to expressing the complexity of human relationships.

Artyom Topilin is a freelance artist who has worked on such Skybound titles as I Hate This Place and Creepshow.

Marco Finnegan is an educator by day and writes and draws comics by night. He lives in Temecula, California, with his family. Finnegan’s books include the upcoming Calavera (Oni Press), Morning Star (Mad Cave), and The Keeper with writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, which was nominated for a NAACP Image Award, three Glyph Awards, and a Locust Award (Abrams/Megascope). His other credits include 007 with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Dynamite), Lizard in a Zoot Suit (Lerber/Graphic Universe), Where We Live(Image), and Crossroad Blues and Last Fair Deal Gone Downwith Ace Atkins (Image, 12 Gauge Comics).