Art by: Fernando de Felipe

Written by: Fernando de Felipe

Texas, 2033. Black Deker and his partner, Top Chop, recover the Lady in the Dark, an old Mississippi steamboat patched together with the remnants of old war materials. Scrap dealers by trade, they use the boat to salvage the scrap from battles fought in the rivers and jungles of the new state.

 But Black Deker decides to take on an unusual assignment: rescue A. Bierce (a prisoner of the fearsome Coronel Snark), from death row at the China maximum-security prison in Nuevo León.

ELIGIBLE FOR INSTITUT RAMON LLULL ILLUSTRATION GRANT

Key points:

• Work by Fernando De Felipe as sole author in which he combines science fiction, action and adventure

• Contains a final section with additional material: sketches, page planning, script extracts, photographs of the model he built to design the main characters’ ship, etc

• Original a/w preserved by Fernando De Felipe

Technical info:

• Original title: Black Deker - Deep South Story

• Last published in Spain by ECC Ediciones (2023)

• Content: 2 stories (46 full colour pages)

Available worldwide