Delano’s Outlaw Nation collected

By John Freeman on 25 September 2006 • ( 1 )

Outlaw Nation #6 – Cover

Releases do Neorama reports that Jamie Delano‘s complete Outlaw Nation, which the British author describes as “my shot at a big, sprawling ‘American Adventure Story'”, first published by Vertigo in 2001 and 2002, will be published in November, in a black and white edition.

In Outlaw Nation, Story Johnson, a hundred-year-old semi-deranged amnesiac pulp fiction-writer returns home from 25 years MIA in Vietnam. All Story wants is to recover his missing time and catch up with some legendary, larger-than-life Johnson Family members. Trouble is, a lot of cousins have “disappeared,” and those that are left have put the blame on him.

Delano reckons the work is some of the best of his career, with art by Goran Sudzuka and Goran Parlov. “It certainly looks damn good, especially in this black-and-white edition,” says Delano. “I hope any new readers who pick it up have will have half as much enjoyment in reading it as I had in its writing.”

• You can buy Outlaw Nation from amazon.co.uk here

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.