Eisner Award Nominees Christopher Cantwell & Tyler Crook Break Out with the First Certifiable Smash Hit of 2025 – Second Printing to Hit Shelves with OUT OF ALCATRAZ #2

*ISSUE 1 2ND PRINTING COVER BY TYLER CROOK*

PORTLAND, OR (March 25, 2025)– EVEN ONCE YOU’RE OUT, THERE’S NO ESCAPE! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is thrilled to announce that OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 – the double-sized, 48-page FIRST ISSUE of the smash-hit new series from Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, Briar) and Russ Manning Award-winning and Eisner Award-nominated illustrator Tyler Crook (Harrow County) – has sold out at the distributor level and will return with a brand-new second printing on April 23rd, alongside the series’ must-read follow-up in OUT OF ALCATRAZ #2!

On April 23rd, let the OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 SECOND PRINTING – featuring a newly redesigned cover by artist and co-creator Tyler Crook – grab you by the throat and discover why Cantwell and Crook’s relentlessly paced and visually breathtaking California noir is already being heralded as 2025’s first must-read, pulse-pounding new series and spurring near-instant sell-outs in comic shops across North America:

“Cantwell and Crook craft a crime thriller steeped in paranoia that keeps the men trapped even though they’ve left their prison cells behind… The time and place are exquisitely captured by Crook, a versatile artist who is equally adept at thrilling action and more subtle character interactions, and he tracks the fraught emotional journey of these characters with crystal-clear specificity.”—AV CLUB

“A story unlike any that has been told before… Crook portrays violence and more typical crime elements with great style.… Simply gripping.”—CBR

“Gorgeous, badass, cool as hell comic that hits different from anything else we have on shelves these days. Don't miss it.”—MATTHEW ROSENBERG (WE’RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US)

“There’s a real cinematic quality to the entire production, not unlike a David Fincher film… Cantwell and Crook are hitting their high bar.”—AIPT

“A crime comic straight out of a Hitchcock film.”—/FILM

“A phenomenal work of comic book storytelling…. Every reader interested in crime thriller and historical fiction will be well-served with Out of Alcatraz #1, and we can’t wait to see where the series will take us next.”—COMICBOOK.COM

“Phenomenal.”—ZAC THOMPSON (CEMETERY KIDS DON’T DIE)

“The execution of this series is absolutely perfect, from the art to the characterization to the plot twists in the first issue alone. The year is young, but this 48-page debut is already up there with best new #1 issues of 2025, no question.”—COMICS BEAT

“Escaping Alcatraz is just the beginning.”—IGN

“Thrilling.”—GEEK VIBES NATION

“Easily one of the best comics of the year.”—JORDAN BLUM (MINOR THREATS)

“Showstopping… This story is one readers won’t want to escape from anytime soon.”—NERD INITIATIVE

"[Out of Alcatraz is a] period crime drama with a strong narrative hand. It's the obvious reference, but if you're into Brubaker/Phillips, this should be exactly your jam."

— KIERON GILLEN (POWER FANTASY)

“Gorgeous.”—iFANBOY

“An exhilarating tale where history and fiction collide… Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook craft a cinematic premiere issue hooking me from the very first panel. … Truly extraordinary.”—CAPES AND TIGHTS

“This is noir at its best.”—FREAK SUGAR

Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who’s also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border – if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been.

Pairing co-creators Christopher Cantwell – creator of critically heralded TV milestone Halt and Catch Fire and co-showrunner of The Terror’s upcoming return on AMC – and Tyler Crook – the master illustrator behind series like Harrow County with Cullen Bunn, The Unbelievable Unteens with Jeff Lemire, and his own Lonesome Hunters – together for the first time, OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 begins a harrowing epic of killers and convicts every bit as cold as Alcatraz Island itself, as told across five, lavishly painted issues from two Eisner-nominated storytellers at the peak of their powers.

The race to escape the shadow of the world’s most infamous prison continues on April 23rd in the OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 SECOND PRINTING and OUT OF ALCATRAZ #2 – continuing the taunt and terrifying tale of our three fugitives … and the trail of wreckage, bodies, and painful revelations they will leave in their wake.