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Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer, author, and Martial arts expert and martial arts instructor. ==Career== Joe Lansdale has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics as well as ''Batman: The Animated Series''. He has written 45 novels and published 30 short story collections along with many chapbooks and comic book adaptations. Several of his novels have been adapted to film.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe R. Lansdale and the movies )〕 Frequent features of Lansdale's writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, such as Elvis and JFK battling a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy in a nursing home (the plot of his Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, ''Bubba Ho-Tep'', which was made into a movie by Don Coscarelli). He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and ten Bram Stoker Awards. In 2007 he received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bram Stoker Winners )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grand master Award )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Mike )〕 His ''Hap and Leonard'' series of 8 novels and 3 novellas features two friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in the fictional town of Laborde, in East Texas, and find themselves solving a variety of often unpleasant crimes.〔 The characters themselves are an unlikely pairing; Hap is a white working class laborer in his mid forties who once protested against the war in Vietnam and spent time in federal prison rather than be drafted and Leonard is a gay black Vietnam vet. Both of them are accomplished fighters, and the stories (told from Hap's narrative point of view) feature a great deal of violence, profanity and sex. Lansdale paints a picture of East Texas which is essentially "good" but blighted by racism, ignorance, urban and rural deprivation and corruption in public officials. Some of the subject matter is extremely dark, and includes scenes of brutal violence. These novels are also characterized by sharp humor and "wisecracking" dialogue.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe R. Lansdale Strikes Again )〕 These books are being adapted into a TV series and a series of graphic novels will be published starting from late 2015. Much of Joe Lansdale's work has been issued and re-issued as limited editions by Subterranean Press〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Featured Authors )〕 and as trade paperbacks by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Publications.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe R. Lansdale site. )〕 His current new release publisher is Mulholland Books.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Authors Page )〕 Lansdale also publishes with Dark Regions Press, Tachyon Publications, most recently releasing a re-issued version of Cold in July in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tachyon Publications )〕 A collection of all his Jonah Hex graphic novels titled ''Jonah Hex: Shadows West'' was released April 2014 by DC Comics. He has also completed a 20,000 word novella titled ''Hot in December''. The trade paperback, ebook, and limited hardcovers are available .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Released spring 2014 )〕 He just released a graphic novel titled ''Crawling Sky'' adapted from the short story by Keith Lansdale. Also in 2014 Lansdale has completed a novella titled ''Black Hat Jack'' which was published in September by Subterranean Press and a horror novella titled ''Prisoner 489''. A new full-length novel titled ''Paradise Sky'' was published mid June 2015 by Muholland Books. Also the comic ''The Steam Man'', co-written with Mark Miller and art from Piotr Kowalski by Dark Horse Comics will be released in October 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DC )〕 Joe Lansdale's newest novel titled ''Fender Lizards'' will be published November 2015 by Subterranean Press and a full length novel ''Hell's Bounty'' will be released February 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/hells_bounty )〕 Also a new Hap and Leonard novel is expected next year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe R. Lansdale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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