Roswell, Texas (graphic novel)
- Roswell, Texas (graphic novel)
"Roswell, Texas" is a serialized, online graphic novel which started in 2006 and was completed early in 2008. It appeared in installments on the web site of Big Head Press.
Written by science fiction novelist L. Neil Smith with Rex F. May (better known as the cartoonist Baloo) and illustrated by artist Scott Bieser, with coloring by Jen Zach and lettering by Zeke Bieser, "Roswell, Texas" is an alternate history set in a universe in which Davy Crockett survived the Alamo and Santa Anna didn't, and in which an expanded Texas eventually became the "Federated States of Texas" rather than one of the United States.
The novel's plot centers around the 1947 crash of an unidentified flying object (analogous to the "real-world" Roswell UFO incident) near Roswell, the westernmost city of the Federated States of Texas (analogous to the real-world town of Roswell, New Mexico). Its theme incorporates Smith's well-known libertarian philosophy and sensibilities.
Like many alternate histories, "Roswell, Texas" makes extensive use of anachronism and anatopism in its story line. Historical personalities including Charles Lindbergh (and his son, Charles Lindbergh III, who in real life was abducted and murdered as an infant), Audie Murphy, Malcolm X, Pope John Paul II, Gene Roddenberry, Elliot Ness, Lawrence of Arabia and others appear in roles often tangentially related to, but always significantly different from, their "real-world" biographies. Additionally, characters from Smith's other works (notably William "Win" Bear, protagonist of "The Probability Broach" and other novels in Smith's "North American Confederacy" series) appear in key or supporting roles as "alternate history" versions of their own fictional selves.
As of March 18, 2008, "Roswell, Texas" was complete at 640 pages -- some consisting of a single illustration, others of multiple panels.
In June, 2008, a gray-scale paperback reprint of "Roswell, Texas" was published by Big Head Press. ISBN 0974381454
External links
* [http://www.bigheadpress.com/roswell "Roswell, Texas" online at Big Head Press]
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