This April 18 and 19th, at the Brooklyn Indie Comics Showcase (a.k.a., “BICS”), located at Industry City’s Box Factory, hosted by St. Mark’s Comics, I will be debuting two, new, grindhouse horror stories in one 32-page, black & white, comic book special!
First up, is BLOOD + BRAINS, written by Jeffrey Burandt, with art by Jason Goungor, lettering by Drew Close, and logo by Jeff Powell. Cover art by Jason Goungor with colors by Simon Gough.
Premise: “When the world is overrun by zombies, how will all the other man-eating monsters survive? A coven of vampires vows to protect a suburban community in exchange for the most valuable limited resource in the land: human blood!”
Next up, is WHOM SHALL THOU SUMMON?, written by Jeffrey Burandt, with art by Kenny Millien, and lettering and logo by Jeff Powell. Cover art by Kenny Millien, with colors by Shawn McArthur.
Premise: “When a team of professional ghost hunters are mysteriously murdered while investigating a mystical mansion, their own spirits rise again to haunt the house. Now the once heroic team known as, ‘The Haunt Blasters,’ must survive the afterlife, trapped inside with the evil entity who killed them!”
Check out all the information on BICS below, support the BK indie comics scene, and come and see me!
Ghost Planet is a 40-page, done-in-one, sci-fi, horror, graphic novella, written by Jeffrey Burandt, with art and lettering by Sean Von Gorman, edited by Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, and published by Scout Comics. In stores on 12/21/22, Ghost Planet is a classic sci-fi tale with a body horror twist: a family of deep space explorers rush to solve the mystery of Ghost Planet before their recently-dead loved ones return to kill them next!
Cover A – by Sean Von Gorman and Omar EstevezCover B- 1:10 Retailer Incentive by Mike Allred and Laura AllredCover C – 1:50 Retailer Incentive by Tess Fowler
See all covers and merch available HERE. Digital copies available via DriveThruComics.
REVIEWS
“Ghost Planet invites readers to join a family of explorers in turmoil brought together by the horrors found on a mysterious planet. It’s haunting and at times shocking. A well-crafted body horror thriller that’s hard to resist.” –LOTUSLAND COMICS
“Ghost Planet feels like Junji Ito in space….imaginative and terrifying.” – BLAKE’S BUZZ
“Burandt’s story is compelling, well scripted and expertly paced. Von Gorman’s artwork mixes all the elements together into a tale which is always suspenseful and appropriately shocking.” – ADULT MUTANT REVIEW GUY
“The slow burn of horror [over] 40 pages, and building terror […] is incredibly well done. One of the creepiest horror comics I’ve read in awhile.” – RABBIT STEW COMICS
“Highly recommend. Such a cool story. Interesting concept and I had a great time reading it!” – THOSE NOT SO SUPER DUDES
“Blood curdling…I fucking love this…pick it up, really fun.” – WE HAVE ISSUES
“There is a well thought out ecosystem at play here [….] Ghost Planet is a solid piece of storytelling” – COMIC CRUSADERS
Heavy Metal Magazine #297, the Winter Special, is available now at the Heavy Metal store, in comic shops, book stores, and digital outlets! And now you can read the story, written by me, and introducing artist Jason Goungor’s and my creator-owned character, “Chris Never.” Our story features colors by Omar Estevez, lettering by Micah Myers, and was edited by Hannah Means-Shannon. [Note: this story spins out of a prose story I wrote years ago here.] Featured image by Dwayne Harris.
Artist Jason Gongour and I have an 8-page story in MEGADETH: DEATH BY DESIGN, available now!
Our story is based on the song, “Reckoning Day,” from the album Youthanasia. Below is a page from our story, featuring colors by Raul Manriquez and lettering by Jaime Martinez.
And here is the publisher’s description:
This year marks the 35thanniversary of the release of MEGADETH, to which the band is set to release their ultimate greatest hits compilation, WARHEADS ON FOREHEADS, on March 22. To further celebrate this, MEGADETH has partnered with premiere comics publisher, HEAVY METAL, to create the ultimate fan experience with a 350-page anthology of comic stories inspired by all the songs on the album. The collaboration, titled
DEATH BY DESIGN, features stories written and illustrated by top talent from the comics, film, television and music world, all inspired by the songs from the album.
The project, carefully curated by DAVE MUSTAINE and HEAVY METAL, is a powerful book that gives both insight and understanding into the universe of MEGADETH and its harrowed mascot, VIC RATTLEHEAD.
Check out the latest Rainbow Boy story by Jeffrey Burandt, Sean Von Gorman, Paul Mounts and Oliver Mertz, published in the 120 Project Anthology, a trade collection of progressive essays and comics stories, available in print and digital. All sales of the 120 Project Anthology are donated to the ACLU!
Odd Schnozz and the Odd Squad tells the story of a group of teens in a punk band in Plano, Texas, who discover they have deep, familial ties to a top secret organization responsible for engineering the cybernetic zoo animals that have taken over the band’s rehearsal space! Featuring dynamic art by co-creator Dennis Culver (with cool colors by Ramon Villalobos), join Odd Schnozz and the Odd Squad as they raise their guitars to battle Rap Bots, Rocket Dolphins and the Agents of B.L.A.N.K. in this thrilling, rock n’ roll, sci-fi adventure! Plus, every song in the book is a real song you can listen to! Odd Schnozz is Josie and the Pussycats meets X-Files.
“Mix King of the Hill with Daria and blast it with gamma radiation, and you’ll have a good sense of the wild world that newcomer Burandt and Culver (Edison Rex) have created.”
“[I]ntense action filled panels, eye-popping color and all from a female fronted (squeak!) punk rock brood… get your hands on this piece of punk perfection…”
“The story is crazy, the art colorfully off the wall, and the soundtrack is fun to hum along. Odd Schnozz and the Odd Squad is a total entertainment package.”
” [R]eally well paced […] Jeffrey Burandt, the writer, does a good job of setting the stage while drawing from all of these different touchstones without getting hacky or trying too hard. Dennis Culver’s art is classic, clean, and easy to follow.”
“Robo-animals, hard rocking teens, and secret spy guys, oh my! […] [W]riter Jeffrey Burandt succeeds in keeping the levity and humor that have become the signature tone of Odd Schnozz and The Odd Squad. […] Culver’s clean lines heighten the action by ensuring each panel flows seamlessly from one to the next; never blurring the exposition making each twist and turn vibrantly clear.
“Odd Schnozz and the Odd Squad should be your squad goals. Right down to the garage band you wish you had in high school to the scooters that you and your crew can be cruising […]”
“One of the most pleasant surprises all year was this digital first story about a high school punk band in Plano, Texas, that finds talking cyborg animals and a government conspiracy right before a big battle of the bands starts. […] Good for transitioning a music geek into a comics nerd.”
“[A] fun book [that] read very well. Hip but still fun [….] It felt like something I could watch my kids get into. Really really cool [….] I’ll be placing an order for it.
This is one my favorite comix I’ve produced to date, starring JTR3 and me from our sci-fi rock band Americans UK, and co-starring The Ramones, Donna Summers, Debbie Harry, and featuring quite a few cameos. Please enjoy.
A little behind the scenes: I needed to fill 8 pages in an anthology I was self-publishing at the time, and my long-time friend Sam Vaughan pitched a longer story to me that was the same page length, but had, like, 9 to 12 panels per page, and so I edited that down to a plot based upon the big beats of Sam’s longer story, and scripted from there, using Sam’s exact dialogue from his initial submission for some scenes, adding or combining with my own for others. Then I roped in artist John Mathias, who played bass in Americans UK at the time, and who illustrated the comic using this amazing, seedy-Archie-like style. My pal Ben did a great job lettering all that jibber jabber! A wonderful collaboration all around, we created this Americans UK gem.
“Yo Gabba Gabardine” first appeared in print in Americans UK Rocktronic Mixtape 2, and online at the now defunct literary salon, Trip City.
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Just Super is a series of vignettes about super-people reimagined as yet another wave of gentrification in the big city, co-created by me and artist ZEES. This first episode was self-published by me in my anthology series Americans UK: Rocktronic Mixtape 1.
After the villains, come the artists. After the artists, come the bars. Then the coffee shops and boutique stores. Once the boutique stores arrive, here come the heroes! Capes and cowls are just another wave of gentrification here in Zap City, jewel of the Meta East Coast. Think you’ve got problems? My landlord was bitten by something radioactive on the subway, and has since gained the proportional strength and stench of a rat! Just super.
[“Classy Lass” pin-up by Scott Forbes + “The Gentleman” pin-up by Terry Taylor]
Just Super is a series of vignettes about super-people reimagined as yet another wave of gentrification in the big city, co-created by me and artist ZEES. This third episode was illustrated by James O. Smith, a bit darker than the rest, and originally published on the now defunct Trip City, an online arts magazine. (Note: I had to cut up James’ amazing two-page spread so that it’s legible within the format of this blog; I have posted the original layout at the end of this entry).
After the villains, come the artists. After the artists, come the bars. Then the coffee shops and boutique stores. Once the boutique stores arrive, here come the heroes! Capes and cowls are just another wave of gentrification here in Zap City, jewel of the Meta East Coast. Think you’ve got problems? My landlord was bitten by something radioactive on the subway, and has since gained the proportional strength and stench of a rat! Just super.
Just Super is a series of vignettes about super-people reimagined as yet another wave of gentrification in the big city, co-created by me and artist ZEES. This fourth episode was illustrated by Ben Rosen, and originally published on the now defunct Trip City, an online arts magazine.
After the villains, come the artists. After the artists, come the bars. Then the coffee shops and boutique stores. Once the boutique stores arrive, here come the heroes! Capes and cowls are just another wave of gentrification here in Zap City, jewel of the Meta East Coast. Think you’ve got problems? My landlord was bitten by something radioactive on the subway, and has since gained the proportional strength and stench of a rat! Just super.
[“Le Girl” character design by ZEES.]
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