Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter Debuts at #3
Friday, Jul 31st, 2009
New Richard Stark adaptation premieres on New York Times
Best Seller List
In its first week of release, IDW is proud to announce that
Darwyn Cooke's The
Hunter, an adaptation of Richard
Stark's novel, debuted on The New York Times best
seller list at number three. The Hunter
has earned high praise for Cooke's compelling
interpretation of Parker, and has been critically lauded
nation-wide by the
Los Angeles Times,
The Washington Post,
Entertainment Weekly and
The New York Times.
Darwyn Cooke, the Eisner-Award-winning writer and artist of such classics as DC: The New Frontier, Selina's Big Score, and The Spirit, brings to life one of the true classics of crime fiction: Richard Stark's Parker. Stark was a pseudonym used by the revered and multi-award-winning author, Donald Westlake.
The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only the thought of revenge burning in his mind.
Here's what the critics are saying:
"The cartoonist Darwyn Cooke is an extraordinary talent... a wonderfully engrossing graphic-novel..." - The New York Times
"Darwyn Cooke and Donald Westlake pull off the perfect crime."
"... a meticulously faithful adaptation..." -
The Los Angeles Times
"Artist Darwyn Cooke's brand-new rendering of the first Parker
novel, 1962's The Hunter, is joltingly good." -
Entertainment Weekly
"...a near-perfect match of artist and character." -
The Washington Post
"The Hunter" remains a brutal classic, and Cooke adapts it beautifully." - The Boston Herald
Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter is now available in stores.
