num_pages: 208
description: Wizard Top Ten and multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan tells the tale of three aspiring comics creators with big dreams, small cash, and publishing rights to one forgotten Golden Age hero - The Escapist! Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new - and old - Escapist!
language: English
title: The Escapists
titlecomplete: The Escapists
genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels, Comics, Young Adult, Fantasy, Superheroes, Comic Book, Collections, Fiction, Bande Dessinée
ratings_count: 1266
places: Ohio
series: Michael Chabon's the Escapist
publisher: Dark Horse Books