"Killing Tree Quarterly" Now Available to Read Online

Curious fans wanting to check out Terminal Press' latest limited run title, Keith McCleary's Killing Tree Quarterly, won't have to wait for the book at one of TP's remaining convention stops this summer. The first 12 pages of the 50-page one-shot can now be read as an online sampler at Keith's own website, www.killingtreequarterly.com.

The pages collect the one-shot's first story, "Rustlers!", and serve both as an introduction to the book as well as to Keith's detailed, high-contrast artwork and his ear for seedy, tongue-in-cheek Western dialogue.

Set in northern California at the turn of the century, Killing Tree Quarterly follows a gang of multicultural assassins (a Chinese-American, a Nez Perce Indian, a retired whore and an independently wealthy black teenager) as they cut a swath of terror through the West, "Stealin' everything and killin' folk. Mainly killin'."  Organized into a series of short stories, the one-shot experiments with style and shifting narrators to tell its tale of blood and gunfighting on the American frontier.

Keith is no stranger to the presentation of his work on the web. Killing Tree Quarterly began as a self-published, work-in-progress webcomic in 2007, earning accolades from the popular DrunkDuck.com webcomic community throughout its online run. The finished work has only been available in print form for most of 2008 (available at Terminal Press convention appearances and online at terminalpress.com), but now returns to its online version to help new readers discover the title during the '08 convention season.

In addition to KTQ, Keith has also taken on writing duties for Terminal Press' Deep Throat, part of the company's Hard/Core line of titles premiering this July at the San Diego Comic Con.