The vicious Western attracts from the real-life story of the Donner Social gathering.

That Texas Blood author Chris Condon is teaming up with Fishflies artist Shawn Kuruneru for the Western thriller The Goddamn Tragedy, a brand new graphic novel that Oni Press will publish subsequent 12 months.

Whereas the story is fiction, it does draw from the real-life story of the Donner Social gathering within the mid-1800s, whose ill-fated journey from Illinois to California grew to become notorious when members of the get together resorted to homicide and cannibalism throughout a harsh winter spent within the Sierra Nevada mountain vary.

“I had been studying in regards to the tragic Donner Social gathering of 1846 and an thought struck me: there’s a narrative right here to inform, one that might seize the psychological tumult a household endures as they’re confronted with an not possible resolution: kill…or be killed,” Condon stated. “Everyone knows how the Donner Social gathering performed out, however we don’t know the way issues work out for the Janson household and that’s a narrative that the masterful Shawn Kuruneru and I are all too excited to inform. Fortunately, we’ve discovered an ideal house for this one-shot of survivalist terror at Oni Press who excels at telling gut-wrenching tales from past the pale.”

Listed here are the small print from Oni Press:

Ellen Janson is right here to set the file straight in regards to the extremely publicized, oft-sensationalized journey her household undertook in 1846. 

Ellen units out along with her mom, Irena, and her father, Leo, on the treacherous highway west in the hunt for a greater life. However when her father chooses to separate off from the get together, taking an untested shortcut via the mountains, can their small household survive the weather, the wildlife—and one another? Or will their journey grow to be nothing greater than one other goddamn tragedy?

“The Goddamn Tragedy is a gritty thriller with an environment akin to The Shining,” Kuruneru stated. “For the previous two years I’ve been drawing Westerns, beginning with my very own comics Cave Grave and Poor Moon, then Fishflies #6 for Jeff Lemire. As a fan of Chris’s writing on That Texas Blood, I’m excited to deliver this story to life with ominous coloration washes, tough line-work, and eerie shadows to slowly reveal the upcoming doom of the Janson household.”

The graphic novel will arrive in shops subsequent Could.