poems about cowboys, poverty, and home

Sixgun Quixote was published by Alchemical Press in October 2009 and is distributed in the United States by Bluewater Productions.

Sixgun Quixote is a graphic novel (as in bloody) about the last stand of a delusional cowboy. It explores the life of an outsider and the long road home. Sixgun Quixote combines prose and art by GMB Chomichuk, poems and hand-lettering by John Toone to assault the senses with a dark prairie beauty and visions of a grave future.

Sixgun Quixote was launched in spectacular fashion on October 31st and November 1st at the Central Canada Comic Con in Winnipeg.

Click here to read a sample of Sixgun Quixote

“Sixgun Quixote is a strange and unusual publication - a dream of a western cowboy – running amok in the vivid imagination and mind of a big city homeless man”

- Ben T. Traywick, Author and Official Town Historian of Tombstone, AZ

“The cowboy poems as told by Sixgun Quixote is like an audio track on paper, reads like music, antic and dark, wholly evocative of Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic masterpiece, The Road, the boys lull you into the dusty, outlaw world of gunslinger and the shoot the shit out of you when they drag you back home. Again with the themes of apocalypse, death and the isolation of the lonely, nasty hero, words and pictures move sensuously, texturally in unison with the absence of hope. This time it’s not fear as beauty, but hopelessness as nostalgia. Sweet.”

- Susie Moloney, The Dwelling

Sixgun Quixote is included in The Imagination Manifesto: Book One, a hardcover that contains four serialized graphic novels that challenge the impossible and reveal the world written between the lines.

Click here to read a sample of The Imagination Manifesto: Book One

To purchase a signed copy of The Imagination Manifesto: Book One for $20 please e-mail john@johntoone.ca. On-line store coming soon . . .

Post date: 2009-11-10 04:41:38 UTC

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