When High Moon came out in 2007, it created a sensation—winning multiple awards, including the Harvey Award for Best Online Series. And why not? It’s like a mash-up of Sergio Leone and George Romero. The brainchild of visual artist Steve Ellis and writer David Gallaher, High Moon tells the story of a bounty hunter in the late 19 th century town of Blest Texas….but this is the wild west with a supernatural twist. It’s a town plagued by werewolves and our bounty hunter himself has haunting secrets to conceal. Fast-forward ten years; and Papercutz recently reissued High Moon vol 1: Bullet Holes and Bite Marks—with volumes 2 and 3 to follow. And they’ve done it in style—re-mastering the art and presenting it in both hardcover and paperback simultaneously—giving the reader, according to author David Gallaher, “the full cinematic experience. “ Steve Ellis and David Gallaher have been collaborators for ten years—among the comics they’ve co-created are The Only Living Boy and Box Thirteen as well as bringing the High Moon Series to an end with new material in Volume 3. Comic book fans are thrilled by this unlikely combination of werewolves and the west. It certainly piqued my interest. Who thinks of these thinks? How does that work?
The National Endowment for the Arts explores the world of comic books
