REBELLION PRESENTS THE JOSE MUNOZ COLLECTION

Three action-packed stories from the legendary Lion comic, all featuring the work of master of chiaroscuro-style black-and-white art -- José Antonio Muñoz. A Stitch in Time follows the adventures of young Stitch Cotton and his alien friend, Varl, after they steal a time machine. Lost in Limbo Land (written by 2000 AD regular, Chris Lowder) follows Barry Smith, a studious bookworm who is struck by lightning and flung into a world of Norse myth and legend. Sark the Sleeper sees a starship commander accidentally woken from hypersleep by two boys who are completely unaware that they are passengers flying through deep space in search of a new home. Muñoz was born in Buenos Aires. He studied under Hugo Pratt and Alberto Breccia, and worked as an assistant to Francisco Solano López. In 1972 he moved to Spain and then to Italy and began a collaboration with Argentine writer Carlos Sampayo which produced, among others, the detective series Alack Sinner and its spin-offs Joe's Bar and Sophie, as well as a comics biography of Billie Holiday. His style is characterized by a sharp line, heavy chiaroscuro, and exaggerated, sometimes grotesque, faces and figures. His work has had a strong influence on Argentine Alberto Breccia, his teacher, also on British artists Dave McKean and Warren Pleece, and US artists Frank Miller (for part of his Sin City style) and Keith Giffen. The cartoonist and critic Scott McCloud, in Understanding Comics wrote that "in José Muñoz's work, dense puddles of ink and fraying linework combine to evoke a world of depravity and morbid decay".