Straight from the Author's Mouth

Femme Noir
Created by Christopher Mills and Joe Staton

With a moniker like FEMME NOIR, you just know things aren't going to be taken entirely seriously in this up and coming web comic.

Who the hell is Femme noir, you may ask? Well, here's how the official advance publicity for Femme Noir goes:

Who is Femme Noir?

Is it Dahlia Blue, the scarlet-tressed songstress who holds court nightly at the trendy Club Selene? Or is it lovely Laurel Lye, ace crime reporter for the Port Nocturne Eclipse? Could it be the raven-haired mob princess Vanessa DeMilo, daughter of Port Nocturne's late crime kingpin, Don Gino DeMilo?

Who is Femme Noir?

She's a very private private eye working the mean streets and bloody alleys of a city where crime and corruption are the status quo and the nights seem to last forever. She takes on the cases that the cops can't or won't solve, and if the system fails -- which it does with an alarming regularity -- she exacts harsh, swift justice with a pair of pearl-handled automatics.

Who is Femme Noir?

Depending on which side of the law you're on, she can be a dream come true...
...or your worst nightmare."

Unofficially, Femme Noir's co-creator Christopher Mills, assures us that :

"It will be at least slightly tongue-in-cheek and will have some fantasy elements; in that regard the model is pretty much Will Eisner and The Spirit. The character herself though, is closer to Max Allan collins' Ms. Tree -- if she'd been played by Veronica Lake.

I hope also to do an actual Femme Noir comic book (at least a one-shot) as well as the webstrip. The webstrip will be a weekly color serial, most likely. The tentative title of the first serial is "Cold, Dead Fingers."

The strip will actually feature TWO private eyes: Femme Noir herself and Red "Rusty" Nales, a Hammer-esque eye who keeps crossing her path (or is that the other way around?). He probably won't show up until the second continuity though; it's a Maltese Falcon homage I'm tentatively calling "The Dingus." At this point, I intend for each continuity to run six months (or 24 episodes)."

EDITOR'S NOTES:

The weekly, full color adventures of Femme Noir by Mills , the creator of private eyes Matthew Dain, Nightmark, et al, and comics legend Joe Staton, co-creator of classic comic book eye Mike Mauser, appeared right here on The Thrilling Detective Web Site in our Web Comics section. "The Dingus" eventuually becamer a eight-part Red "Rusty" Nales standalone story that appeared in Femforce #121, and was serialized in these pages in Autumn 2003.

Want more? You can still catch up on previous installments, by heading on over to the Supernaturalcrime.com's official Femme Noir page where the original strips will be going into re-runs. And if that ain't enough, why not check out The Dingus?

And coming up in print: Femme Noir: Dark City Diaries, a proposed 4-issue mini-series. It's an "introductory" issue, but Chris feels he's found an interesting and accessible way to construct it.

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Thanks to Chris Mills for shooting his mouth off. We appreciate it!

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