WALK

"In the hellishly repressive dystopia of America's not too distant future, mindless, televised violence is the last surviving art form.  A dying society's yearning for catharsis finds its ultimate expression in the TOWER OF JUSTICE, seventeen stories of carnage and cameras, where hundreds of condemned criminals fight to the death daily in glorious prime time.  Enter GARROTTE, a living mountain of muscle and angst, a man determined to take the 'long walk' to the top of the tower, where, it's just possible, the ultimate prize of freedom awaits...for whatever it's worth."

"They said I wasn't right in the head..."

Thanks again to Stefano Cardoselli for inviting me to put words to his artwork.  Stefano essentially sent me the finished pages of art, supplied me with the names Garrotte and Tower of Justice and said 'write whatever you think works over the top of it, we just have to make sure we get the hero to (spoiler spoiler spoiler) at the end."  Considering the helter skelter way it was all arranged, I'm very happy with this descent into pure insanity turned out.

Thanks as well to Bram Meeham, who did a stellar job of turning my fiddly, fussy, wordy script into stately letters on the page, and to the irrepressible and always supportive Brian Logan at Thirsty Shadow Comics who organized the kickstarter campaign which made publication possible!

Walk  is available as a pdf download from Comics Drive Thru or you can inquire at Thirsty Shadow to order a print copy.

Press for Walk:
Review for COMIC BASTARDS by Dustin Cabeal
Comics Bulletin review by Daniel Elkin
Indie Comix Spotlight bit

Vincent Price's House of Horror #3

 Last year (or was it the year before?) Stefano Cardoselli of Azurek Studios honored me with an invitation to help write some issues of the Vincent Price series for Blue Water Comics, and it would seem that they are finally becoming available in print.  Stefano's artwork has appeared in dozens of independent comics over the last few years and also happens to grace  the cover of  the most recent issue of Heavy Metal. He has contributed stacks of gorgeous artwork to the Weird Fantasy comics Rat's Tooth, written by your humble host, and Iron Head, co-written by your humble host.  I hope to release these titles on my own label sometime before I die.  We also have a few other projects up our sleeves...

Press bit for VP's HH #3: 

If ever you should awaken from a troubled sleep, to find yourself in a barren place….If ever you should find yourself wondering who you are, where you came from, or how you came to be running for your very life through a labyrinth of shadows and murderous beasts…If ever you come to feel that your every footfall is guided by a power and a menace which drives you toward your destruction for the sake of its own hideous amusement…

Well…

It just could be that…you’re on Black Magic TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 If anybody's interested, you can find issues of the Vincent Price titles for sale here at Comic Flea Market...  They are filled to burstin' with great art (much of it by Stefano), and creepy stories...

Unpleasant Dreams...