Comic Work - The Dead Alives Comic

Hello, friends and supporters. Here are the pages from my comic created to be an insert for the band The Dead Alives' record "Harper's Resurrection." There were one hundred copies printed for the record's release, but due to complications within the band the project never got a fair chance to actually see the light of day. So, from what I know and what I'm told, the comic can be found in the possession of a lucky few folks who received copies of the record and a zine library in Portland, Oregon.

I've tried to present everything here as you would have seen it in print. Let me know what you think. Also, let me offer a massive thanks to Tony Spielmaker for approaching me with the offer to work on this endlessly entertaining project, to Chad Blakely for being so awesome as to let me use one of his incredible illustrations as a pin-up, and to Stacy Roberts for her fantastic contribution. I hope you, dear reader, enjoy!

Here you can see the finished cover. As you can tell it was heavily inspired by the classic EC Horror Comics. The idea for a fake advert belonged to Tony. I came up with the fictional tonic and the text.

This is the inside of the cover. To the left you can see all the neat bits of text crediting this person and that. It gives you an idea of who was in the band at the time of this book's creation, who contributed pin-ups, and other miscellaneous wordy-bits. To the right you can see the zombie pin-up from Thorny Grove creator Stacy Roberts (http://thornygrove.blogspot.com/).

The cover art for the book. Instead of the EC characters the band members are in the left side circles. This was another of Tony Spielmaker's great ideas.

This is page one. The EC Comics influence leaked into the comic itself with the Crypt Keeper-like introduction. Now, read on and find out what happens to these two crazy, music-loving kids.

Love amidst the memory of death. Sigh.

Here's where the three-page story ends. Tough luck for the kids, no?

This magnificent pin-up, which I was incredibly fortunate to receive, was one of the interior pages of the book. It came from comic creator Chad Blakely (a brilliantly wonderful and supportive chap). He's the man responsible for the hit graphic novel Kidnapping Kevin Smith and his current series Astonishing Adventures. Chad's work can be found on his blog http://www.chadblakely.blogspot.com/