Oni Press continues to reveal an impressive slate of new comics for 2025. IGN can exclusively debut their newest title, Out of Alcatraz, which dramatizes the events surrounding perhaps the most infamous prison break in American history.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive first look at Out of Alcatraz #1 (beware of some NSFW language ahead):
Out of Alcatraz is a limited series written by Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man) and drawn by Tyler Crook (Harrow County). The first issue features cover art by Crook, Oliver Dominguez (Electrical Wizard), Valeria Burzo (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Massimo Carnevale (Y: The Last Man), and Hayden Sherman (Absolute Wonder Woman).
Here's Oni's official description of the series:
Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who’s also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border – if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been.
“The possible escape from Alcatraz by three men in 1962 is one of those mythic loose threads in history, one that captured my imagination a long time ago,” said Cantwell in Oni's press release. “Out of Alcatraz is my obsessive ruminations about what might have become of them if they really did make it off that island and out of the bay, and has turned into this American parable about what it means to be free and if any of us ever really can be. Watching Tyler render this tense, violent, and human story so beautifully with his visionary eye and hand has been one of the high points of my career as a writer.”
“To me, Out of Alcatraz is a classic ’60s crime/road movie,” said artist Tyler Crook. “These convicts, free of the world’s most secure prison, are confronted with the prisons that they create for themselves through their own worst instincts. This results in a tense narrative full of great characters and set in a fascinating time and place. Working with Chris has been amazing – we are both working our butts off to make this the best comic we possibly can.”
Out of Alcatraz #1 will be released in March 2025.
Oni's previous 2025 reveals include the horror Western The Goddamn Tragedy and Free for All, the newest release from Beneath the Trees Where Nobody sees creator Patrick Horvath.
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