George R. R. Martin presents Wild Cards: Sins of the Father A Graphic Novel

A cop on the trail of a bizarre murder uncovers a hidden conspiracy—and shocking secrets about his late father—in this original graphic novel set in George R. R. Martin’s shared-world universe, Wild Cards.

In 1946, an alien virus ravaged the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. From that fateful moment to the present day, those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated.

Today, Aces, Jokers, and uninfected humans live in relative peace. Francis “Franny” Black is an uninfected human cop, trying to police a world filled with people with the extraordinary powers that he lacks. Newly—and some would say too suddenly—promoted to detective, he has been working out of Wild Card Central, the precinct in Jokertown where the bulk of the virus victims fell in 1946. Franny’s father was one of the heroes of the precinct, killed in the line of duty, and Franny is finding it hard to fill his dead father’s shoes. That is, until he’s given a particularly insidious case and starts uncovering long-buried secrets that his father might have died to protect. 

Illustrated in a gorgeous, cinematic style by Michael Komarck and Elizabeth Leggett, this unique graphic novel is a visual feast certain to delight.

Melinda M. Snodgrass is a failed opera singer, recovered lawyer, and now a novelist and screenwriter. She worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reasonable Doubts, and Profiler and has written movies and TV pilots. Together with George R. R. Martin she co-created the Wild Cards book series, currently the longest-running shared world anthology in existence.

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons—as well as related works such as Fire & Blood, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and The World of Ice & Fire, with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson. He lives with his lovely wife, Parris, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Michael Komark is a renowned illustrator who works exclusively in the digital medium. In 2003, he began his career in cover illustration, and has sinced worked with all the major publishers, as well as with such clients as Blizzard Entertainment, Dark Horse Comics, Electronic Arts, Fantasy Flight Games, Marvel, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Online Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Wizards of the Coast.

Elizabeth Leggett is a two-time fan artist Hugo winner, a five-time Chesley nominee, gallery artist, and SF novel cover designer. She has had two solo shows at George R.R. Martin’s theater, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, and has exhibited twice in the Lea Gallery at the Mazza Museum. She exhibited and curated a gallery show, “Readings,” for Santa Fe’s Keep Contemporary gallery.