‘Stringer’: A New Hard-Hitting Crime Thriller Graphic Novel From Patrick Kindlon, Paul Tucker And Image Comics

Writer Patrick Kindlon (Antioch, Frontiersman) and artist Paul Tucker (Tet, Nobody is in Control) team up for a new crime thriller set in the ’80s in the upcoming original graphic Stringer from Image Comics.

“In Stringer, it’s 1983. Tournament tennis. A racquet stringer turned small-time drug dealer gets in over his head transporting a gym bag of cocaine across Europe. Carrying a half-million in narcotics puts him on the radar of every dangerous man on the continent. Whoops.”

Kindlon said of his collaboration with artists Paul Tucker:

“It’s difficult to find an artist as fearless as Paul. Just real go-for-it kamikaze energy. The result is anything we do together has a wildcard element that makes every page a potential showstopper. Every storytelling trick that exists in comics we give a spin in the pages of Stringer. Pair that with a story built for maximum fun, and you’ve got comics gold.”

Tucker added:

“Comic books and tennis could be written on my tombstone. That’s a bit premature I hope, so in the meantime we have Stringer, a dream book that I’m very excited for people to check out. Bringing Patrick’s wide cast of offbeat characters to life in a globetrotting misadventure has been a joy, and I hope the fun we’re having on the page has the energy of a five-set thriller.”

Pitched as a must for fans of Ozark and Gunning for Ramirez, Stringer is the first in a planned line of books and comics set in a shared universe they’re referring to as the “Rabbit Hole” universe and out in comic book stores on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 and in bookstores on Tuesday, April 2th, 2023 from Image Comics.