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A warrior testacle rides a battle kitten.
by Jeffrey Burandt

GONAD THE BALLBARIAN – THE THEME SONG!

To celebrate the upcoming release of the original graphic novel, Gonad the Ballbarian (in comic book stores on 11/18/26), my sci-fi rock band, Americans UK, have released our latest EPIC rock n’ roll single!

You can stream if for free HERE – or purchase a high-quality download for a mere buck fiddy.

While I have your attention, please check out the below preview pages released by publisher Source Point Press and Prana Direct Market Solutions!

You may already know this, but comic books and graphic novels in the Direct Market (i.e., your local comic book store) live and die by pre-orders. Pre-ordering our indie graphic novel helps get the word out to comic book stores that readers want our book, and so maybe they order an extra one or two for the store, which helps get our book into the hands of more readers.

Soon we are the best selling book in the world, movies are made, and theme parks are built! And you got there first!!

So if you like what you see, and it makes you laugh like it makes us laugh, please pre-order Gonad the Ballbarian the next time you are in your local comic book store. The last day you can pre-order our graphic novel is called the, “Final Order Cutoff,” usually shortened to, “FOC.” Our Final Order Cutoff is on 10/26/26

And hey, I even made a handy dandy flyer (with the help of Gonad artist Blake Sims), which you can download on your phone or print out and take to your local comic book store!

Cover art for 'Gonad the Ballbarian', featuring a character in armor holding a sword and shield, set against a rocky landscape with trees and water in the background. Text includes release information and publisher details.
Sims after Sims.

Thank you for supporting us!!

by Jeffrey Burandt

MEGADETH: DEATH BY DESIGN

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.

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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.

by Jeffrey Burandt

Yo Gabba Gabardine

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.  yogab1yogab2yogab3yogab4yogab5yogab6yogab7yogab8

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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