Noir Previews

Publishers Weekly has a preview of Dark Horse's upcoming black-and-white anthology of crime comics, Noir.

Also, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's contribution will be a Criminal short story. You can see a couple pages of it here and there.

In addition to Brubaker and Phillips, Noir includes work by:

• Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets)
• David Lapham (Stray Bullets)
• Rick Geary (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)
• Chris Offutt (HBO's True Blood)
• Paul Grist (Kane)
• Jeff Lemire (Essex County)
• M. K. Perker (Cairo, Air)
• Alex de Campi (Smoke)
• Eduardo Barreto (Cobb)
• Dean Motter (Mister X)

I'm looking forward to this book. It goes on sale on September 30, 2009.

Pre-Order: From Dark Horse over here, from Heavy Ink down that way, or even from Amazon up through this thing: Noir