WELCOME TO THE B-SIDE OF THE CITY OF ANGELS… The year is 1981. The American Century is running on fumes, but the end isn't anywhere in sight. The cowboy is still America's most central symbol—and from movies, to music, to the President himself, it all hails from Southern California. PALOMINO tells the story of ex-cop turned musician Eddie Lang. Eddie has big dreams, but dreams don’t pay the rent. So he reluctantly works as a private investigator to provide for his teenage daughter Lisette.  Eddie and Lisette share an unbreakable bond and a dry sense of humor, but they’re haunted by a terrible loss and the looming shadow of an unsolved crime. The Langs are stuck— but just as their lives seem at be at a stalemate, a new murder case upends their world.

“A fantastic comic! Highly recommended." —Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer)

“I smelled the Jasmine in the air, that's how powerful Stephan Franck’s Palomino was to me. I was there... in Los Angeles ...alongside characters that felt like I knew  my entire lifetime. What a great f*****g ride.” –Jimmy Palmiotti (Harley Quinn; Starfire; Painkiller Jane)

“Palomino sits alongside Sin City, Stray Bullets and other hard-boiled classics while  singing with an original, uniquely authentic voice. Lived-in, brutal, mature...this is comic book noir at its best.”  –Zeb Wells (Amazing Spiderman, Hellions, Robot Chicken)

“Well hot damn. To quote the great Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, ‘AHAHH!!’ What makes a great and engaging narrative for me is frequently the synergy of character and place, of mise en scene…and to be blunt, Stephan Franck, in his new book, PALOMINO, delivers on those fronts in spades. His people, populating a beautifully depicted, too rarely examined piece of real estate in 1980s Los Angeles, are familiar and real, without ever becoming archetypes. To be clear, it’s been at least a decade since I’ve taken such unalloyed pleasure in reading a comic book. Trust me on this.” —Howard Chaykin, legendary creator of  American Flagg

“Franck’s latest neo-noir graphic-novel PALOMINO reads like a free-flowing gust of pure creativity, all the while unfolding with implacable structure.”—Elsa Charretier, artist of November,  Harley Quinn