| Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga | |
|---|---|
| Date | October 15, 2007 |
| Series | Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga |
| Publisher | Graphitti Designs |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Richard Kelly |
| Artists | Brett Weldele |
| ISBN | 0936211806 |
Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga is a collection of three graphic novels produced to accompany the 2006 feature film Southland Tales. The graphic novels were written by the film's screenwriter-director Richard Kelly and illustrated by Brett Weldele. The collection was published by Graphitti Designs.
Concept and development
The graphic novels featured are the first half of the Southland Tales story. The film itself relates the second part.
Southland Tales, in its entirety, was conceived as a nine part "interactive experience". The first six parts would have appeared as six 100-page graphic novels released in a six-month period leading up to the film's release in 2007. The feature film comprises the final three parts of the experience. A website was also developed to interweave the narratives of the graphic novels and film. The planned six graphic novels was reduced to three.
Two Roads Diverge, Fingerprints and The Mechanicals make up the three published graphic novels.