Matt Kindt remains one of the busiest creators in comics, especially since launching his experimental Flux House imprint in 2022. And while Kindt is known for interesting creative collaborations (including co-writing BRZRKR with Keanu Reeves), his latest project, Gilt Frame, might just be his most interesting creative collaboration to date. This time, Kind is writing alongside his own mother.
IGN can exclusively reveal the cover art for all three issues of Gilt Frame. Check them out in the slideshow gallery below:
Gilt Frame is co-written by Matt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt and illustrated by Matt Kindt. The series consists of three oversized issues, all chronicling a complex murder mystery and the unlikely detective duo called upon to solve it. Here's Dark Horse's official description of the series:
A classic whodunit that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro, Gilt Frame stars Sam, an orphan in his early twenties, and his well-off Aunt Merry who has an outsized appetite for antiques, travel, and solving crimes. Sam was adopted by his aunt years ago and together they have solved some of the most notorious murders in the world. Now their latest Parisian adventure is cut short when they stumble upon a murder scene so bizarre that only a raging psychopath could have produced it. To solve this crime, Sam and Merry will have to wrestle with jewel thieves, art-forgers, gun-runners, the century-old ghost of the woman in black, a lost puppy, and a master French detective who just might solve the crime before they do.
“While we were working on this book it brought back memories of me when I was ten or so…and Mom constructing pretend 'crime scenes' at home for me to solve,” said Matt Kindt in a statement. “Follow the fake bloody footprints to figure out what happened. Pay attention to the broken clock. Why is that door open? That childhood memory actually explains a lot. Very formative. So of course it only makes sense for us to build another crime scene together. Brings me back to my roots and to what writing has always been for me – play. We’re having fun.”
“Although it is a privilege and thrill to collaborate with someone of Matthew’s caliber and of his generation, the real joy and value is personal,” said Margie Kraft Kindt. “What a bonus at this time of life, the gift and pleasure of so many hours and days in the company of a grown-up son, sitting across from each other at our partner table, settling into our chairs as we brainstorm plot twists. Each of us takes on the roles of our characters. I develop the energetic persona of the star of Gilt Frame, the take-charge Meredith Pearson — Aunt Merry to her beloved nephew and best buddy, Sammy — while Matt shoots out dialogue for him. We toss around how they would play off each other — so completely immersed in the exhilarating work we are both passionate about, that every once in a while, we stop and ask each other, ‘Are you getting this down?’”
Gilt Frame #1 will be published by Dark Horse Comics on August 7, 2024, with advance copies also being sold at San Diego Comic-Con.
Previous Flux House releases include Spy Superb and the horror series Hairball. On the BRZRKR front, BOOM! Studios recently unveiled the latest spinoff to this ever-growing saga - BRZRKR: A Faceful of Bullets.
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