Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook have teamed up for Out of Alcatraz, a new mini-series that tells the tale of the outbreak from a notorious prison.
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 soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who’s also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border – if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been.
“The possible escape from Alcatraz by three men in 1962 is one of those mythic loose threads in history, one that captured my imagination a long time ago,” said writer Christopher Cantwell. “Out of Alcatraz is my obsessive ruminations about what might have become of them if they really did make it off that island and out of the bay, and has turned into this American parable about what it means to be free and if any of us ever really can be. Watching Tyler render this tense, violent, and human story so beautifully with his visionary eye and hand has been one of the high points of my career as a writer.”
“To me, Out of Alcatraz is a classic ’60s crime/road movie,” said artist Tyler Crook. “These convicts, free of the world’s most secure prison, are confronted with the prisons that they create for themselves through their own worst instincts. This results in a tense narrative full of great characters and set in a fascinating time and place. Working with Chris has been amazing – we are both working our butts off to make this the best comic we possibly can.”
Out of Alcatraz #1 (of 5) arrives in March 2025.
YOU CAN RUN FROM JUSTICE…BUT YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE FATE!! Oni Press has unveiled 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 and Russ Manning Award-winning and Eisner Award–nominated illustrator Tyler Crook! 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.
- 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.
Pairing co-creators Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook, 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, Valeria Burzo, Massimo Carnevale, and Hayden Sherman.
