The Making Of A Graphic Novel: Louis L'Amour's
LAW OF THE DESERT BORN
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Join author Beau L'Amour and Eisner Award winning illustrator Thomas Yeates on their two year adventure to capture the gritty detail of this noir tale that spans the deserts of the American South West and a lifetime of experience. Walk the original paths that writer Louis L'Amour traveled in his "Yondering" days and see how the buildings and towns, desert landscapes and lava fields influenced the plot and inspired the amazing artwork in this stunning, hardcover graphic novel adaptation of this thrilling Louis L'Amour story.
Louis L'Amour
LOUIS L’AMOUR, truly America’s favorite
storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from
the United States Congress in honor of his
life’s work. He was also awarded the Medal of
Freedom. There are more than three hundred
million copies of his books in print worldwide. Discover more about Louis L'Amour and all his works at the official web site: WWW.LOUISLAMOUR.COM
Beau L’Amour
BEAU L’AMOUR grew up among the writers,
actors, beatniks, Apache Indians, Asian arms
brokers, FBI agents, and members of the
Hollywood Ten who were the denizens of his
West Hollywood neighborhood and his parents’
friends. He graduated from California Institute
of the Arts. Over the years, L’Amour has written
and produced a series of more than sixty audio dramas and worked in the radio and magazine
business, then as a screenwriter and television
producer. In the world of book publishing, he has been an art director, literary editor, and
ghost writer.
Katherine Nolan
After receiving her MFA in screenwriting from
UCLA, KATHERINE NOLAN wrote and edited
audio dramatizations and screenplays based on
the short stories of Louis L’Amour. Traveling the
southwest and poring through dusty archives,
she worked with Beau L’Amour tracking down the details of his father’s extraordinary life. She
has published a book of essays and currently
works as a writer and editor in various media. Katherine lives in South Pasadena with her
husband and two sons.
Charles Santino
CHARLES SANTINO scripted the Jack London
pastiche “Blood and Ice” for Savage Tales, his
first pro assignment. With Michael McDowell, he collaborated on the psychological horror
novel "Toplin." Plotting and scripting "Conan the
Barbarian" for Marvel followed. He adapted the
first graphic novel based on the work of Ayn Rand, "Ayn Rand’s Anthem: The Graphic Novel",
with artist Joe Staton. Although he admits that
he “can’t draw worth a lick,” he storyboards his
pages before writing a prose script, “so I know it’s going to work.”
Thomas Yeates
Eisner Award–winning comics illustrator THOMAS
YEATES
is highly influenced by old-guard illustrators like Harold Foster and Al Williamson.
Originally from Sacramento, Yeates eventually
moved to New Jersey to attend the Joe Kubert
School for two years. Since then he has worked
as an illustrator, focusing on high adventure in
the comic book/graphic novel field. Illustrating a Louis L’Amour western story is a dream job for
Yeates. He is currently the artist on the Prince
Valiant Sunday strip, another dream job.
Paul O'Dell
Long time collaborator and family friend, PAUL O'DELL brings his unique set of marketing, web design and photoshop skills to the project, digitally retouching, cleaning and editing each page as well as developing, designing, and implementing the Internet footprint for the book. In addition to his work on LAW OF THE DESERT BORN, Paul manages all of the L'Amour web sites and has produced and edited several of the Louis L'Amour Dramatized Audio Books, an ongoing project with "The Diamond of Jeru" still in post production.
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