Cleet in Europe · Issue One
Cleet in Europe No. 1: The Princess Annie
a comic book by A.A. Glover · 24 pages · full colour
A Memphis riverboat man. One rusty English steamship. Two men who want her.
Cleet built a fortune on the Mississippi: a riverboat, a lumber yard, a plantation, and a bourbon that carries his wife's name. Now he has crossed an ocean to buy a steamship, and England has a few things to teach him about what a ship costs.
There is a rusting steamer on the Liverpool docks with his daughter's name already painted on the bow. There is a man from Glasgow with a sealed offer for the full asking price — a man Cleet and Hattie Marie have met before, on a night neither of them talks about. There is a banker who has never seen a letter of credit from Tennessee, a tailor who charges extra for buttons, and forty-one things wrong with the boat.
Cleet has a list. Hattie Marie has the ledger. Annie Marie has her pyjamas on, and she is not changing.
Readers who followed Cleet from the first winter of freedom will know the man: careful with anything he can't name, quick to recover when he's wrong, and softer with his family than he lets anyone see. New readers need nothing but the ship. Issue one includes the complete comic, a sketchbook section, and the full script.
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