Ace Books and Dabel Brothers are partnering to publish Patricia Briggs‘s Alpha and Omega series in comic and graphic novel form. The comic will be a graphic adaptation of Briggs’s Cry Wolf. Dabel Brothers’s comic Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf, Volume 1, will debut in August 2009, and be a four-issue series. Ace will then collect the four comics as a graphic novel in November 2009.
According to Ace’s Jodi Rosoff, the Alpha and Omega series “grew from a novella of the same title, originally published in the anthology On the Prowl. This story, featuring two popular secondary characters from Briggs’s bestselling Mercy Thompson series, was well received and Briggs decided to spin them off into a new series. The Alpha and Omega series began last year when Ace published the full-length novel Cry Wolf and will continue this August when a follow-up novel Hunting Ground hits bookstores.”
“We already have a great relationship established with Patricia and are excited to be working with [Ace] on this project,” said Rich Young, Business Director of Dabel Brothers Publishing. “We think that this will be the start of another great relationship.” Dabel Brothers previously adapted the Mercy Thompson series itself.
“I’m so excited to work with the Dabel Brothers on the graphic novel adaptation Cry Wolf. Their work is stunning and I know they’ll do her story justice. I can’t wait to bring the werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham to life through comics as well as in novels,” said Ace Executive Editor Anne Sowards.
Patricia Briggs is the author of 14 fantasy novels. She is best known for her New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson series. The Dabel Brothers previously published comic adaptations of Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series. This will be Ace’s “first foray into the graphic novel market.”