johnny geronimo

Art of darkness

(FROM UNM PRESS) Someone, or something, is killing the Native artists and art collectors of Santa Fe. The police are baffled by a series of brutal murders: ritual killings with all the trappings of some of the mythic monsters of the Apache origin stories, each signed with the same bloody signature: the Coyote. But where the police fail, Johnny may succeed. A hard-bitten, hard-boiled private investigator right out of the pages of Chandler or Cain, Johnny has a key advantage: as an Apache, he can go places the police can’t, and he can talk to the people the police won’t. As the owner of Eagle Eye Investigations, Johnny moves effortlessly among both the high society of Santa Fe and the outlaw underworld. With his assistants, Willy and Jessie, as well as a succession of lady friends, Johnny sets out on the trail of the Coyote, and the closer he gets, the more it becomes apparent that the hunter is also the hunted. Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness incorporates themes from Apache and other Indigenous traditions to tell the story of this classic antihero of Native noir and of the demonic Coyote, who may be more than anyone can imagine.

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THE CLOCK!

Allan Liska is a ransomware researcher, comic book lover and the owner of Green Archer Comics. He hired me to illustrate a series of single-frame comic strips depicting a Commanche Woman, blessed with the power to travel through network time protocols, a digital avenger if you will. She knocks scammers out with not just her signature cane, but she puts boots to faces and wastes no time with fisticuffs. Here is the first full 32-page ongoing feature written by Weyodi Oldbear (Commanche) and drawn by me.