New York Times Best-Selling author and artist Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, Red Handed), and New York Times Best-Selling artist Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun, The Damned), are creating Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon, the first in a series of graphic novels for children, Dark Horse announced today. The series features Poppy Pepperton and her sidekick Colt Winchester on globe-trotting adventures and the first graphic novel revolves around a reincarnated Egyptian king and a talking shrunken head spouting clues–this all sounds weird enough to play to Kindt's particular strengths in riddles, mysteries, and international intrigue and make the series a potential classic. Hurtt's highly-detailed, evocative style and experience handling a mix of fantastic and historical elements seem particularly well-suited to the project, though for both Kindt and Hurtt, it's their first foray into children's books.

Dark Horse also reports that Mike Richardson has acquired all English-language rights to the books, which hints at a plan for international sales on the series.

[Matt Kindt]

[Brian Hurtt]