Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained is a Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...

 comic book

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 limited series

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 created by writer Peter Lenkov

Peter Lenkov

Peter M. Lenkov is a TV and film writer and producer as well as being an occasional writer of comic books. Lenkov was born in Montreal, Canada where he attended both McGill and Concordia University. He is married to ex-model/actress Audie England...

 and artist Frazer Irving

Frazer Irving

Frazer Irving is a British comic book artist known for the 2000 AD series Necronauts. Irving studied art at the University of Portsmouth, England, after which he took various temporary jobs in London...

. It should not be confused with the 1971 biographical study Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained by Damon Knight

Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre.-Biography:...

, which apart from the title has no connection with the comic book series.

Comic

Fort, featuring the fictional adventures of the famed anomalist Charles Fort

Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...

 is a four-issue miniseries written by Peter Lenkov, with art by Frazer Irving. The series was released monthly between June and September 2002 by Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...

.

Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained marked Charles Fort

Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...

's second major comic outing - the first being Necronauts

Necronauts

Necronauts was a story that ran in the comics anthology 2000 AD, and was created by Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving. It was this series that really brought Irving to public attention as his high contrast black and white artwork complimented Rennie's dark storyline.-Publication history:The outline...

also drawn by Irving.

Plot

Its 1899 and as the end of the century draws near a strange killer lurks on the streets of New York. However, only famed anomalist Charles Fort

Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...

's careful analysis of his news clippings reveals the pattern and further investigation revels some strange findings. At the same time he is monitoring some strange shooting stars, ably assisted by H.P. (a young H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

) which leads to his encounter with an alien

Extraterrestrial life

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. Falsely accused of the murders, he has to team up with the extraterrestrial and find the real killer.

Charles Fort

Charles Fort

Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...

 was an early twentieth century American writer, philosopher and anomalist. In four books, between 1919 and 1932, he catalogued thousands of reports of anomalous phenomena, making important early contributions to ufology

Ufology

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, cryptozoology

Cryptozoology

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 and parapsychology

Parapsychology

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Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback

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• Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Dark Horse, ISBN 1-56971-781-8, Titan Books, ISBN 1-84023-579-9)

Awards

• Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative
  Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative
  Nominees are listed below the winner for each year.* 1998: ** Sergio Aragones' Dia de las Muertos by Sergio Aragones & Mark Evanier** Preacher by Garth Ennis** The Son of Man by Garth Ennis...
  
   (2002): Peter Lenkov
  Peter Lenkov
  Peter M. Lenkov is a TV and film writer and producer as well as being an occasional writer of comic books. Lenkov was born in Montreal, Canada where he attended both McGill and Concordia University. He is married to ex-model/actress Audie England...
  
   for his work on Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (runner-up)

See also

Charles Fort also features prominently in:

• Necronauts
  Necronauts
  Necronauts was a story that ran in the comics anthology 2000 AD, and was created by Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving. It was this series that really brought Irving to public attention as his high contrast black and white artwork complimented Rennie's dark storyline.-Publication history:The outline...
  
  
• The Searchers

External links

• Dark Horse page
• Review, Comics Bulletin
  Comics Bulletin
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