Stray Bullets

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Stray Bullets

Cover to Stray Bullets #1 (1995). Art by David Lapham.

Publisher	El Capitan Books
Schedule	irregular
Format	black and white ongoing

Creative team
Writer(s)	David Lapham
Artist(s)	David Lapham
Creator(s)	David Lapham

Stray Bullets is an American independent comic book published in black and white (with colour covers) by El Capitan Books. It is written and drawn by David Lapham.

It deals with the often criminal and sometimes tragic misadventures of a large cast of characters and takes place from the mid 1970s through to the mid 1990s.

The first issue was published in 1995 and the series continues to be published on an irregular schedule.

[edit] Collections

There have been an assortment of editions reprinting the original comic books.

The first three storyarcs in the series were originally collected in large-size hardcovers which were published in a format similar to European comic book collections. Beginning in 2005, the first two of these same storyarcs were published in traditional American comic book size softcover edition:

Innocence of Nihilism, collecting Stray Bullets #1-7 (Hardcover: ISBN 0-9653280-2-3; Softcover: ISBN 0-9727145-6-1).
Somewhere Out West, collecting #8-14 (Hardcover: ISBN 0-9653280-5-8; Softcover: ISBN 0-9727145-7-X).
Other People, collecting #15-21 (Hardcover: ISBN 0-9653280-9-0; Softcover: ISBN 0-9727145-8-8).

A fourth arc:

Dark Days, collecting #21-28; (Hardcover: ISBN 0-9727145-5-3; Softcover: ISBN 0-9727145-9-6).

was solicited in hardcover and softcover but has yet to appear in either.

The first 32 issues of the comic book have also been collected in eight softcovers, each of which reprints the contents of four individual issues:

Stray Bullets Volume 1, reprinting #1-4 (ISBN 0-9653280-3-1).
Stray Bullets Volume 2, reprinting #5-8 (ISBN 0-9653280-4-X).
Stray Bullets Volume 3, reprinting #9-12 (ISBN 0-9653280-6-6).
Stray Bullets Volume 4, reprinting #13-16 (ISBN 0-9653280-7-4).
Stray Bullets Volume 5, reprinting #17-20 (ISBN 0-9653280-8-2).
Stray Bullets Volume 6, reprinting #21-24 (ISBN 0-9727145-0-2).
Stray Bullets Volume 7, reprinting #25-28 (ISBN 0-9727145-2-9).
Stray Bullets Volume 8, reprinting #29-32 (ISBN 0-9727145-4-5).

There is also been a "Amy Racecar" softcover collection, that collects the Amy Racecar issues from the series as well as the 2 Amy Racecar color specials.

Amy Racecar Volume 1 (ISBN 0-9727145-1-0)

[edit] Awards

The series has been nominated for numerous awards. The trade paperback collection Stray Bullets: Innocence of Nihilism won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint for 1997 and was a top votegetter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel/Album for the same year.