Stephen King (novel)
Peter Straub (novel)
PLOT - To save his mother from certain death, young Jack Sawyer enters a parallel world known as the Territories in search of a powerful talisman.
Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today the writer and artist on the comic book and graphic novel versions of "The Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
The book will be penciled and inked by Tony Shasteen, illustrator of Image Comic's "The Occult Crimes Taskforce" (The O.C.T.), co-created by David Atchison and Rosario Dawson. Film rights to The O.C.T. are in development with Dimension Films.
It will be scripted by Robin Furth, who co-writes Marvel's bestselling "Dark Tower" comics taking place in King's Dark Tower Universe. The Gunslinger Born – the first of the Dark Tower series – was nominated for both an Eisner and a Harvey award. Robin has written "Satana and The Electric Pentacle" for Marvel's Legion of Monsters and has adapted Sherrilyn Kenyon's Lords of Avalon series to comic book form. She worked as Stephen King's research assistant between 2000 and 2004 and continues to do freelance work for the Master of Horror.
Lettering and project management will be handled by Dabel Brothers Publishing. The first issue of the monthly comic is planned for early fall 2009.
Originally published in 1984, "The Talisman" is the story of a young teen named Jack Sawyer, who can save his dying mother only by retrieving a magical talisman. To find it he must cross back and forth between our world and the frightening and dangerous landscape of its "twinner" counterpart. Both The Talisman and its sequel, Black House, are in print with Ballantine Books. Television rights to The Talisman are under development by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy.
