About the Barbarian Behind Bars Graphic Novel Volume 1

A bloody barbaric blast from the creative team behind Maniac of New York!

From beyond the limits of time and space comes a warrior whose quest against evil brings his strong arm and battle axe to earth — where he’s swiftly arrested and thrown in prison. Ignorant of English, short-tempered, violent, and with no allies other than his cheese sandwich-grilling cellmate and his cynical public defender, the barbarian must find a way to escape his cage before his greatest enemy returns from the dead to use the prison system against him! But can this mythic hero survive a world where a shower can become a death pit and a mystic gem of power is just so much contraband? Elliott Kalan is a writer and comedy person. He's written TV shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Mystery Science Theater 3000; comic books like Maniac Of New York, Harley Quinn, and Spider-Man & the X-Men; picture books like Sharko & Hippo and Sadie Mouse Wrecks the house: and also hosted podcasts like The Flop House and Smartless Presents: Clueless. He's very busy and very tired.

Andrea Mutti began his career illustrating the superheroes comic 'DNAction' for Xenia Edizioni. He then illustrated horror comics for Fenix. He moved over to Star Comics, where he drew stories with 'Lazarus Ledd' and some episodes of 'Hammer'. Since then he's worked with DC/Vertigo, Marvel, Mad Cave Studios, and IDW.

Taylor Esposito is multi-award winning comic book lettering professional, owner of Ghost Glyph Studios, and teacher at the legendary Kubert School. A former staff letterer at DC and production artist at Marvel, he has lettered titles such as Red Hood and The Outlaws, Robin Lives!, and Harley Quinn The Eat KILL Bang Tour; Flash Gordon, Edenfrost (Mad Cave Studios), Exorsisters, Drawing Blood (Image); Babyteeth, Maniac of New York, Bunny Mask (Aftershock); No One Left to Fight and Survival Street (Dark Horse). Other publishers he has worked with include BOOM! Studios (Amory Wars, Fence) Dynamite (Elvira, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Green Hornet), and IDW (Brynmore).