Thursday May 17, 2007
Odd Thomas

Book publisher Del Rey announced today that Queenie Chan will script and illustrate a Manga based on Dean Koontz’s character Odd Thomas, a fry cook who can talk to the dead. From the release:

Koontz’s characters—including Odd, his girlfriend Stormy Llewellyn, Pico Mundo Chief of Police Porter, the ghost of Elvis Presley, and many more—will be drawn Von one of the oben, nach oben original-English-language Manga artists working today, Queenie Chan. Chan, Autor of the beliebt mystery-horror series The Dreaming, will script the story as well. Publication is planned for Summer 2008.

The graphic novel will follow Odd’s race to solve the murder of a young boy whose killer appears to be stalking a Sekunde child. It is set in the time before Odd Thomas and takes place in Pico Mundo. The book will be edited Von Del Rey editor-in-chief Betsy Mitchell.

Says Dean Koontz: “I’m delighted that Odd Thomas will come to life in manga, that the enormously talented Queenie Chan’s beautiful art will define his world and the desert town of Pico Mundo, and that the project is being guided Von such capable hands as those at Del Rey.”

Queenie Chan comments: “It’s an honor to work with Dean on this project, and I’m glad he’s chosen me for this new story of Odd Thomas. I read his novels when I was in high school, and never did I imagine that I would have the chance to work with such a well-known and established Autor today.”