Cartoonist Chris Hunt Releases a Commentary Track For His Graphic Novel Carver: A Paris Story

After its release last month, cartoonist Chris Hunt took to Soundcloud to publish a commentary track for his new graphic novel Carver: A Paris Story.

“I didn’t think anybody was going to play attention to this book, to be honest with you,” Hunt says in the recording, which you can see below. “No one knows who I am. It’s a black-and-white comic from a pretty small publisher, and it’s in a dead [comics] genre, action/adventure….But this week has been pretty extraordinary and surprising to me.”

He put together a 20-minute commentary track providing insight into the process and development of the first act of the story, with an eye toward creating a couple more to complete his look at the comic.

It’s a fascinating look at the graphic novel, and ComicBook.com is happy to present it below.

Hunt, exploded on the comics’ scene last year with his first-ever creator owned comic series. Hunt’s Carver: A Paris Story is a pulpy, black and white comic book and a loving throwback to old fashioned, globetrotting adventure. A heartfelt homage to Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese (which has been an inspiration to numerous comic book creators, including Frank Miller, who used the name for a location in The Dark Knight Returns),Carver: A Paris Story blends the best elements of European and American comic book storytelling.

In the book, notorious gentleman of fortune Francis Carver returns to the City of Lights in 1923 after an absence of five years. He’s come back to aid Catherine Ayers, the wife of a wealthy Parisian socialite and the only woman he’s ever loved. Her daughter has been kidnapped by the leader of a crazed anarchist gang, a man named Stacker Lee. In order to bring the girl home, Carver will have to crawl through the underbelly of the city while confronting the demons of his past, before being faced with a final choice: succumb to the man he has become, or take that mask off and be the hero he always wanted to be.

Z2 Comics published Chris Hunt’s complete story, with a back-up story by his mentor Paul Pope (Escapo). You can pick it up at your local comic shop or on Amazon in paperback for $14.99.