First Look: OUT OF ALCATRAZ #2 – Eisner Award Nominees Christopher Cantwell & Tyler Crook Go on the Run!

YOU CAN RUN FROM JUSTICE…BUT YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE FATE!! Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to unveil the first look inside of this spring’s OUT OF ALCATRAZ #2 – the next relentless installment of the New Year’s first truly MUST-READ new series from Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, Briar) and Russ Manning Award-winning and Eisner Award–nominated illustrator Tyler Crook (Harrow County, The Lonesome Hunters)! This April, the taunt and terrifying tale of America’s most notorious fugitives continues as they desperately race for freedom through the California countryside … leaving a trail of wreckage, bodies, and painful revelations in their wake.

1962. California. 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 thought escaping America’s most notorious prison would be the hard part. They were wrong. Frank, Clarence, and their secretive handler were supposed to be laying low in the farmlands north of San Francisco, but the bodies have already started piling up . . . and it’s difficult to keep a finely tuned plan in order when you’re turning on each other. Meanwhile, the FBI wants this case closed and the escapees declared dead, but one rogue US Marshal has a lurking suspicion that might just bring the full weight of history crashing down on the walking dead men who somehow made it out of Alcatraz—only to find a worse kind of hell waiting for them.

“In Issue #2 of OUT OF ALCATRAZ, we pick up with two fugitives who now feel invisible, caught in limbo between the world of the incarcerated and the free, the dead and the living,” said writer Christopher Cantwell. “Yes, Frank and Clarence have escaped, but without two of the men that were supposed to come with them. And now there have been further violent—murderous—complications. It’s time to move North, to try and stick to a plan that is rapidly eroding into chaos, but what waits for them in Redding, California are more unknowns, and more men with guns. And when their desperation to really experience their hard-won freedom backfires, they end up superheating their own trail of escape, and find themselves prisoners of a different kind—ones blackmailed to do dirty work worse than either of the rap sheets than landed them in Alcatraz in the first place.”

Pairing co-creators Christopher Cantwell – creator of critically heralded TV milestone Halt and Catch Fire and co-showrunner of The Terror’s upcoming return on AMC – and Tyler Crook – the master illustrator behind series like Harrow County with Cullen Bunn, The Unbelievable Unteens with Jeff Lemire, and his own Lonesome Hunters – together for the first time, OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 begins a harrowing epic of killers and convicts every bit as cold as Alcatraz Island itself, as told across five lavishly painted issues from two Eisner-nominated storytellers with covers by co-creator Tyler Crook, Oliver Dominguez (Electrical Wizard), Valeria Burzo (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Massimo Carnevale (Y: The Last Man), and Hayden Sherman (Absolute Wonder Woman).

OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 is the latest in a series of five all-new, genre-defying projects from acclaimed creators revealed by Oni Press for Spring 2025

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