April 7, 2005, Atlanta, GA – Taking the advice of retailers around the country, Desperado Publishing increased the story page count and cover price of its just released novella, Freak Show, by Bruce Jones and Bernie Wrightson, by adding three complete black and white, classic short stories. The additional short stories all feature words and pictures by Wrightson and the total package is wrapped in a color cover featuring all-new Wrightson art. The cover price is $14.95, up only two dollars from its original solicited price.
In Freak Show, a humble man, lonely at heart, seeks out the rejected “special people” of the world, taking these misbegotten outcasts under his wing in a traveling show of oddities, performing from town to town. In his kind, yet lonely journey, this man of compassion also seeks something else, a mate – someone to love – willing to return all the kindness he’s shown his less fortunate troupe of oddities. When he finds that someone, his life is complete…until her pregnancy. She gifts him with a “special” child of his own. His fury at God and the world for such a betrayal, drive him to a state of revenge and hatred that reveals his true inner self – a self his traveling carnival of “special people” wreak their own twisted revenge upon.
“In speaking to the retail community, I was told that it would make sense, in their opinion, if we added some extra material to the Freak Show package to beef it up a bit and give readers more than just the one story,” Joe Pruett, Desperado publisher said. “Unfortunately, this meant that I’d have to raise the cover price a bit, but I was reassured that this wouldn’t be a problem if the material I added was top quality. I think I’m pretty safe then, because what’s been added is amazing.”
Freak Show is available now. To see a five-page sample, follow this link: http://www.desperadopublishing.com/Previews/Freak%20Show%20Preview.htm.
For more information on Freak Show and other Desperado Publishing titles, please log onto their web site at www.desperadopublishing.com.
About Desperado Publishing:
Atlanta, Georgia-based Desperado Publishing in partnership with Image Comics is set to release a daring line-up containing titles both existing and brand new by some of the comic industry’s biggest names. Always a visionary, publisher Joe Pruett is well known throughout comics as one of the finest assessors of talent and has discovered many of today’s biggest names. Some of those joining him at Desperado Publishing are Bob Burden, Phil Hester, John McCrea, J.M. DeMatteis, Mike Ploog, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Ron Marz, Andrew Robinson, Keith Giffen, Tony Harris, Brian Bolland, Bernie Wrightson, Bruce Jones and P. Craig Russell. A sampling of titles you can expect to see include: Flaming Carrot, Negative Burn, Stardust Kid, The Atheist, Widowmakers, Deadworld, and Dusty Star. More information can be found by logging onto their web site at www.desperadopublishing.com.
