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The Last Comic Book on the Left Rises for Volume Two

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Following the launch of The Last Comic Book on the Left this summer, curators of the grotesque Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel will return this Fall with a new volume stuffed with  tales disgusting, disturbing, and perversely delightful. Alongside the clandestine organization known as Z2 Comics, the minds behind Last Podcast on the Left have recruited a new batch of victims creators devoted to ushering terror and hilarity onto panel and page for The Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 2. These conjurors of the profane will unleash new tales featuring Bigfoot, Philip K. Dick android, Gef the Talking Mongoose, the return of the Well Actually Killer, Alcatraz island, the Manson Family, and more sad, buttery goodness from Detective Popcorn.

What deviants are responsible for this debauchery? 

  • James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth, Something Is Killing the Children)
  • Rick Veitch (Swamp Thing, Miracleman)
  • Bob Fingerman (Minimum Wage, Beg the Question)
  • Ian McGinty (Adventure Time, Invader Zim)
  • Tom Neely (Henry & Glen Forever)
  • Lonnie Nadler (Black Stars Above, X-Men)
  • Brandon Montclare (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)
  • Butch Mapa (Avengers)
  • Masa Minoura (Genesis One: A Poppy Graphic Novel) 
  • Jensine Eckwall (Almost A Full Moon)
  • Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, What’s the Furthest Place From Here?)
  • Eliot Rahal (Machine Gun Kelly’s Hotel Diablo, the upcoming Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: The Graphic Novel)
  • Logan Faerber
  • Bayard Morse

Like the first volume of The Last Comic Book on the Left, a series of prints will come bundled with deluxe editions of the book. Artists and subjects include: 

  • Koren Shadmi, Alien…um…accessories
  • Ashley Ross, Hail Yourself 
  • Butch Mapa, The Birdman of Alcatraz
  • Jenna Cha, Sexy Mothman
  • Zack Pape, Jeffrey Dahmer’s Apartment 
  • Joefur, Last Podcast on the Left Medley

The Last Podcast on the Left Comes to Comics with THe Last Comic Book on the Left

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After producing nearly 500 full episodes exploring the darkest corners of humanity and supernatural dread, horror-comedy connoisseurs Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel are ushering their Last Podcast on the Left into the strangest realm of all: comic books. The trio has partnered with Z2 Comics to release a new series of graphic novels, beginning with The Last Comic Book on the Left Vol. 1, debuting Spring 2022. 

The project will pay homage to the storied history of horror comics with a curated, interlocking anthology in the vein of Creepy, Eerie, Tales From the Crypt, and The Vault of Horror. Participating creators include the most innovative voices in the genre, including:

  • James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth, Something Is Killing the Children)
  • Rick Veitch (Swamp Thing, Miracleman)
  • Bob Fingerman (Minimum Wage, Beg the Question)
  • Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, What’s the Furthest Place From Here?)
  • Ryan Cady (Machine Gun Kelly’s Hotel Diablo, Sublime: $5 at the Door)
  • Eliot Rahal (Machine Gun Kelly’s Hotel Diablo, the upcoming Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: The Graphic Novel)
  • Morgan Beem (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches, The Family Trade)
  • Noah Van Sciver (Grateful Dead Origins, the upcoming Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: The Graphic Novel)
  • Logan Faerber

Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski will also contribute a story to the project, illustrated by legendary artist John McCrea (Hitman, The Boys: Herogasm). Eric Powell (The Goon, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?), Martin Morazzo (Ice Cream Man, HAHA), and Bob Fingerman provide cover art. 

Further embracing the podcast’s marriage of the sinister and silly, deluxe editions of The Last Comic Book on the Left will also come bundled with a series of prints, revolving around suspiciously erotic cryptids and other spooky surrealism. Artists and subjects include: 

  • Ian McGinty, Detective Popcorn
  • Sean Von Gorman, The Jersey Devil
  • Noah Van Sciver, Bigfoot
  • Jenna Cha, Mothman
  • Norzine, Aum Shinrikyo
  • Martin Morazzo, John Wayne Gacy
  • Logan Faerber, Black Death
  • Courtney Menard, The Rendlesham Forest Incident

The Last Comic Book on the Left Vol. 1 will be available this Spring.

The Last Podcast on the Left

Z2 Comics and Cheech and Chong Partner for a 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel

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Z2 Comics is teaming with the comedy duo known affectionately as Cheech and Chong for Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles! Co-written by the two comedy geniuses themselves, their first graphic novel is guaranteed to earn its place alongside such beloved classics as their 1978 film and album “Up in Smoke.”

Totally broke and out of weed, the world’s most iconic stoners–Cheech and Chong–are in a bad way. That is… until they get a call that changes their lives. Cheech’s old friend, a casino manager in Reno needs an emergency opening act for his rock show. If they can make it, the job is theirs. But what begins as a classic American road trip to score a**, grass and cash quickly morphs into a reefer-fueled toke through time in Cheech & Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed. This original graphic novel from Z2 Comics is the “real” history of cannabis seen through the bloodshot eyes of the legendary comedy duo, Cheech & Chong.

Released in time for the celebration of the duo’s 50th anniversary of performing together as Cheech and Chong, looking back through the history of cannabis and their own place in it, Cheech & Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed is a fictionalized history documenting marijuana’s “influence” on significant people and events throughout time for a collection of hilariously hazy memories and half-truths as told by the masters themselves in partnership with comedian and comics writer Eliot Rahal and artist Noah Van Sciver, with additional artwork from Bob Fingerman, Rick Veitch, Jim Mahfood, and Jason Gonzalez! 

Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: A Brief History of Weed will be released in a soft and hardcover edition in finer comic shops and bookstores alike on April 20, 2021 and is also available to preorder now in these and a gorgeous, oversized slipcase deluxe format wraparound cover art by Bob Fingerman, as well as a matching slipmat, a gorgeous print set featuring work from Rick Veitch, Jim Mahfood and Jason Gonzalez! A third and hyper-limited platinum edition will also be available in a one-time signed edition with special packaging!

Around the Tubes

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It would be new comic book day tomorrow… but, it can be new comic book every day! What new comics are you all checking out? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

CBLDF – Let’s Create Comic Books! New Free Templates for Inspiring Activities – Some help to have some fun while you spend the time.

The Beat – Rick Veitch is named the new Comics Laureate of Vermont – and check out his new Boy Maximortal book – Very cool and congrats!

Reviews

Newsarama – Finger Guns #2
The Beat – Kakushigoto: My Dad’s Secret Ambition
Monkeys Fighting Robots – Kill a Man
Monkeys Fighting Robots – The Scent of May Rain
Atomic Junk Shop – The Strange Ones
But Why Tho Podcast – Suncatcher

Preview: Rick Veitch’s The One

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Rick Veitch’s The One

Rick Veitch (w & a & c)

The classic revisionist superhero saga that predates Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns and presented a shocking worldview that almost predicted today’s political climate! Rick Veitch’s groundbreaking series has been called the last word on superheroes. It is a world-spanning, continent-crushing, over-the-top adventure story that brings the United States and Russia to the brink of annihilation… from both nuclear warheads and crazed superheroes-run-amok!

HC • FC • $29.99 • 200 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-358-2

Rick Veitch’s The One

Preview: Rick Veitch’s The One #6 (of 6)

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Rick Veitch’s The One #6 (of 6)

Rick Veitch (w & a & c)

As the Great Superior War escalates, cities are reduced to rubble and billions die. With the planet’s tectonic plates cracking under the strain, survivors must make a final terrible choice: Join The Other and mutate into a monstrous new life form—or experience humanity’s ultimate destiny by becoming The One.

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Preview: Rick Veitch’s The One #5

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Rick Veitch’s The One #5

Rick Veitch (w & a)

Magnetic Fields Forever! The world’s on the verge of destruction as the American supersoldiers find themselves face-to-face with their Soviet counterparts. Don’t look away from The One! What you’re hoping to find, in the back of your mind, it’s the surreal thing!

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Preview: Rick Veitch’s The One #4 (of 6)

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Rick Veitch’s The One #4 (of 6)

Rick Veitch (w & a & c)

The American supersoldier, Charles, takes the new superior war to Moscow—only to be ensnared in the wily schemes of Vera Pavlova—while his super-powered sister Amelia defends the homefront from the onslaught of their fast-mutating Soviet counterpart, Bog. Caught in the carnage, Little Larry makes a startling transformation. The One! What you’re hoping to find, in the back of your mind, it’s the surreal thing!

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Preview: Rick Veitch’s The One #3

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Rick Veitch’s The One #3

Story: Rick Veitch
Art: Rick Veitch
Color: Kirby Veitch
Editor: Scott Dunbier

Superior War! Charles, Amelia, and Bog, super soldiers who possess extraordinary power and a questionable grip on reality, stalk each other across the globe, setting the stage for an apocalyptic clash of civilizations. Meanwhile, The One, claiming to be a manifestation of humanity’s collective consciousness, discovers his shadow side, The Other, lurking in Benway’s son. And if that’s not enough, Double gives Little Larry the ride of his life—a magical journey to the North Pole that will change him, and perhaps all mankind, forever.

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Preview: Rick Veitch’s The One #2

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Rick Veitch’s The One #2

Story: Rick Veitch Art: Rick Veitch Cover: Rick Veitch
Color: Kirby Veitch
Editor: Scott Dunbier

Waking from the Big Sleep, our post-nuclear family has a mysterious houseguest called The One. But when his ancient nemesis appears, they find themselves ensnared in a cosmic conflict of unimaginable proportions. Meanwhile, with all atomic weapons disabled by The Double, the American military unveils their long-secret super-soldier project… and then the Soviet military fast-tracks its own program based on untested Nazi Übermensch technology.

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

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