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March 13th, 2008 7:49 PM

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ATTN: Retailers, Journalists & Podcasters!

Bulletin:

In April, Ape Entertainment will be soliciting the first issue of a brand-new, 4-issue, full-color comic book miniseries by writer Christopher Mills and legendary, Eisner Award-winning artist Joe Staton.

This miniseries is called: FEMME NOIR: THE DARK CITY DIARIES.

This series is comprised of four, 28-page, standalone stories, each of which revolves around a mysterious blonde crime fighter in a midnight blue trench coat, snap-brim fedora and black fishnet stockings. She also packs a pair of .45 automatics, and isn't shy about using them. Each night she stalks the mean streets of Port Nocturne, the Dark City of every film noir and hardboiled crime pulp; a city of cold, gray fog, unrelenting rain, and impenetrable shadows.

Port Nocturne: where each night seems to last forever, the bitter odor of gun smoke lingers in the air like cheap perfume, every black alley comes to a dead end... and justice is blonde.

We currently have pdf files of the first two issues available for review by journalists, reviewers and retailers. Joe Staton and I are also both available for interviews, be they for print or pod. If you are interested in reviewing the comics or interviewing the creators, please contact Christopher Mills at atomicpulp@gmail.com for access to the FEMME NOIR press site.

The official FEMME NOIR website is www.femme-noir.com.

CREATOR INFO:

Christopher Mills is an experienced writer whose other comics credits include scripting a year's worth of Leonard Nimoy's Primortals for TeknoComix; writing, editing and co-publishing the black & white horror series Shadow House, and scripting the Moonstone/CinemaGraphix graphic novel, The Night Driver. His highly-acclaimed crime one-shot, Gravedigger: The Scavengers with artist Rick Burchett, was published by Rorschach Entertainment and named the best crime comic of 2004 by multiple critics. His Kolchak Tales miniseries, Night Stalker of the Living Dead, will be published by Moonstone Books in March.

His website is: http://www.atomicpulp.com

Femme Noir is illustrated by comics industry veteran Joe Staton, whose numerous credits include drawing the adventures of such major Marvel & DC characters as the Hulk, Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, Batman, The Huntress, Plastic Man, Scooby Doo, and many others. He illustrated the Paradox Press graphic novel Family Man (written by Jerome Charyn) and is the co-creator of the Charlton Comics superhero E-Man and DC's The Huntress and The Omega Men. In 1998, he received an Eisner award for his work on World's Finest: The Superman-Batman Adventure.

The series also showcases the contributions of inkers Horacio Ottolini and Mark Stegbauer, and colorists Melissa Kaercher and Matt Webb. Covers are pencilled by Staton with digital painting by Alfredo Lopez Jr. Each issue also features a variant cover by guest artists: Issue 1 has a variant cover by Brian Bolland, 2 by Matt Haley, 3 by Phil Hester, and 4's variant cover was pencilled by the late Mike Wieringo shortly before his death.

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