Black Feather Valley

Weissman channels inspiration like Max Fleischer's Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, Turok comic books and other Dell western and animal comics, Steinbeck's The Red Pony and East of Eden, as well as the paintings of Charles M. Russell, to create this curiously affecting and utterly unique work of graphic brilliance. Always a singular stylist in comics, Black Feather Valley is a showcase for Weissman's distinctive cartooning language, his innate storytelling skills, and an acute sense of comic timing. Weaving a lovable cast of characters both human and animal (no one in comics does horses better than Weissman) through a series of vignettes that tell the individual stories of the cast while also propelling the wagon train's desperate need to escape the valley, Black Feather Valley is pure comic book fun, with a heart of gold.