Slave Labor's Midnight Sun

Slave Labor will publish Ben Towle's Midnight Sun in late June; from the press release:

In May 1928, the Italian airship the Italia embarked on an ambitious and dangerous expedition to the North Pole. A celebratory radio communiqué from the international crew announced their arrival at their destination, but soon all communications ceased. Excitement turned to uncertainty, and a world-wide search effort was launched to recover the crew of the Italia, whose fate was unknown.

Ben Towle, a nominee for a Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition Eisner Award in 2004, captures the tense mood during the weeks of search in his new comic mini-series Midnight Sun, to debut in June 2006 from SLG Publishing. Midnight Sun follows H.R., a down-on-his luck American reporter. He's dispatched to cover the story of the lost Italia at the top of the Earth, where the Arctic summer means there is almost perpetual daylight.

Hey, at least that means there are no vampires ...