Savage Town

Declan Shalvey is an award-winning artist/writer from Ireland. Over his career, Shalvey has illustrated hit titles such as Batman, Deadpool, Punisher, Moon Knight as well as the acclaimed graphic novel series INJECTION with writer Warren Ellis for Image Comics. Since moving into writing, he has gained credits such as, Deadpool VS Old Man Logan, SAVAGE TOWN, and BOG BODIES.Jordie Bellaire is a two-time Eisner winning colorist for acclaimed projects such as Vision, They're Not Like Us, Pretty Deadly, Injection, Auttumnlands etc, as well as mainstream hits like Batman, Deadpool, Moon Knight, and Hawkeye. She is writer and co-creator with artist Vanesa R. Del Rey on the ongoing Image Comics series Redlands. She lives in Ireland with her famous cat, Buffy.

BOOKLIST -- Image Comics'original graphic novel is dedicated to Steve Dillon, and, indeed, it captures anecho of the late British artist's collaborations with writer Garth Ennis onvarious crime sagas. Here working-class family man Jimmy Savage is navigatinghis way around the Hogans and the Dawsons, the two leading crime families ofLimerick, Ireland. Jimmy is small time but has big ideas and is bucking for thetop, and through various vicious schemes and betrayals, he appears to be on hisway. The story offers a blue-collar social realism that paints an authenticsense of place and a believable portrait of Jimmy and his crowd, whose dialoguecomes in a torrent of regional slang, which sometimes requires careful parsing.Jimmy, meanwhile, is by no means a sweetheart, as his bloody response to hisoldest friend's betrayal attests. The art, though, softens the lines of itsfigures and uses the thick-jawed faces and occasional black-dots-for-eyes stylereminiscent of old-time comic strips, effectively blunting the edges of the grimbrutality with a cushion of visual innocence.