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Asylum Press Announces Zombie Terrors As A Digital Comic Series On iPad, iPhone, Android, PC/Mac & Kindle Fire

ASYLUM PRESS ANNOUNCES ZOMBIE TERRORS AS A DIGITAL COMIC SERIES ON IPAD, IPHONE, ANDROID, PC/MAC & KINDLE FIRE

April 24, 2012 (Los Angeles) Frank Forte announces that Asylum Press will release a Zombie Terrors as an ongoing digital series.Cvr

Zombie Terrors (ongoing series) is an anthology of the undead. It gathers together artists and writers from all over the world to have their hand at everyone’s favorite brain eaters. Issues 1-5 will feature content form the Zombie terrors TPB released in 2010, and issues 6 and on will feature all new content.

Zombie Terrors will also be available on Comixology. Comics+ (Iverse), Graphicly, Diamond Digital as well as stand alone apps and epubs on KindleFire, Nook, Kobo, ibookstore, and Googlebooks.

“We’re very excited about the possibility of reaching so many people all over the world, “ explains publisher Frank Forte, “tablets and smart phone ownership is exploding and we want to provide great comics content. The one obstacle we face is coordinating releases an all platforms and devices. We’ll be updating which comics are available on which platforms on our website.”

Zombie Terrors #1 is a morbid flesh rotting collection of zombie tales. Featuring an international cast of artistic talent. Frank Forte delivers Beheaded, a tale of a crazed hillbilly who takes trophies off of his zombie victims. “The Feast” tells the tale of a gourmet chef taken hostage by a greedy mob boss, By Royal McGraw and Aduato Silva. In “Hate”, by Doug Williams, a recently turned undead still has some semblance of his humanity–and he hates it. Pin-ups by David Hartman. Many flesh-eating tales to shock and horrify! !

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ABOUT ASYLUM PRESS:

Founded in 1999 by Frank Forte, Asylum Press is a unique publishing house specializing in high profile projects from some of the industry’s biggest rising stars. Steve Mannion’s Fearless Dawn is the company’s newest title and has been a great fan favorite. Publishing action/adventure comics with Black Powder: A Bloody Frontier Adventure, Trenchcoats, Cigarettes and Shotguns, Warlash: Zombie Mutant Genesis. And continuing their tradition of horror with Undead Evil, Satan’s 3-Ring Circus of Hell, Asylum of Horrors, Zombie Terrors, EEEK! Asylum Press continues to be on the cutting edge of comic and graphic novel publishing. Asylum Press is distributed by Diamond Comics Distributors, Liber Distributors and Tony Shenton and to the Booktrade by SCB Distributors, Ingram and Baker and Taylor. Distributed in the U.K. by Turnaround Distribution.

Two Books Look at Horror Comics


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Looks like there’s two new books hitting the market that look at some comic book history.  The Washington Post reports that The Horror!  The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read! and Four Color Fear Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950’s.

The Horror! The Horror! is written by Jim Trombetta and looks at that genre of comic books and the political shenanigans that surrounded their demise.  The book comes with a DVD of a period TV program that inveighs against the evils of comics.

Greg Sadowski also looks at that time with his book Four Entry Fear.  His book includes more examples of the material that got banned.

Both look like excellent entries for those interested in comic book history.

What about the children!? Comic book edition.

A couple of weeks back CNN online posted an article taking a look at the comic book scare of the 1950, when some claimed comic books were corrupting our youth.  A book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hadju, looks at this time of hysteria in American history and the Senate hearings it produced.

I recently purchased a copy and will be covering it down the road once I’m finished or if anything of interest pops up.

You can read about this part in American history at this Wikipedia article.