News
Jim Hensons Tale of Sand Preview Out Now
Hollywood, CA (September 26, in the year of our Lord
2011) – In honor of what would have been the late Jim
Henson’s 75th birthday, award-winning publisher Archaia
Entertainment will debut the first 20 pages of the upcoming
original graphic novel Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, which is based
on an unproduced screenplay written by Henson and longtime
collaborator Jerry Juhl and visualized and illustrated by
acclaimed artist Ramón Pérez, it was announced by
Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy today.
“We are so pleased to be able to share with Henson fans a
glimpse inside this groundbreaking project,” said Christy.
“Ramón Peréz has created a stunning visual translation of Jim
Henson’s only unproduced feature-length screenplay, and we are
honored to debut this exclusive preview of the forthcoming
graphic novel in partnership with The Jim Henson Company and
Google's celebration of Jim's birthday.”
Tale of Sand, a dark, existential feature-length screenplay that
built off of ideas Jim Henson had been developing since he
produced his Academy Award-nominated short film “Timepiece,”
tells the story of a man who is kicked out of a dusty town in
the middle of the desert, with no memory of who he is or where
he came from. Relentlessly pursued by an unknown assailant, and
with only a rucksack of odds-and-ends to his name, he embarks on
a desperate race across an increasingly bizarre landscape with
only one thing in mind: survival.
Archaia and The Jim Henson Company entered into a multi-year
publishing partnership in 2009 for Archaia to publish comics and
graphic novels based on classic franchises like Fraggle Rock,
The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, as well as new, co-branded
original properties.
Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand (hardcover, 152pp, $29.95, ISBN:
978-1-936393-09-1) is scheduled to debut in comic book shops and
wherever books are sold in November 2011.
Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand:
Jim Hensons Tale of Sand Preview Out Now.html