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Moon Knight #30

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d you all get? What’d you like? Dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

The Guardian – Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper becomes the UK’s fastest-selling graphic novel ever – Very cool.

Kotaku – Big Spider-Man 2 Update Coming ‘Early 2024’ Will Add Highly Requested Features – Cool.

Kotaku – Fans Speculate About A Spider-Verse Game Following Insomniac Leaks – Your guess?

Reviews

CBR – Bloodrik #1
Comicbook – Masterpiece #1
Comicbook – Moon Knight #30
CBR – Our Bones Dust #1
Atomic Junk Shop – Parasocial

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Parasocial

It’s a new week and we’ve got a lot coming at you! Hold on, it’s going to be a fun and busy week. Kicking things off is our morning roundup of news and reviews from around the web you might have missed!

The Beat – Sales Charts: Wimpy Kid sales decline – Lots of talk about sales lately. Get a tour of what little we know.

Techcrunch – How Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world – This feels like it might be a bad thing in practice…

Reviews

The Beat – Cat on the Hero’s Lap Vol. 1
The Beat – Parasocial
CBR – Star Wars: The High Republic #1
CBR – Thanos #1
CBR – W0rldtr33 Vol. 1

Erica Henderson and Alex de Campi on Parasocial, their new graphic novel

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A fading genre actor and an obsessed fan meet. It’s not Misery at all, it’s Parasocial, the latest graphic novel from the twisted minds of Erica Henderson and Alex de Campi! Parasocial is this creative team’s newest collaboration since their critically acclaimed Dracula, Motherf–r! both published by Image Comics. 

We talk about:

  • What makes a horror story deeply scary 
  • Who is Luke Indiana and the power of pseudonyms
  • The economics of fandom and genre celebrity
  • 95% of fandom is a wonderful transformative force, it’s the other 5%….
  • The power and perils of fandom and social media
  • “A color scheme for the lies they tell themselves and a color scheme for the lies they tell other people”
  • Dracula
  • Making fan art of your art
  • And the Medici family’s sexy bible fan art

Erica Henderson is a NY Times best selling and Eisner award winning artist and writer. You’ve read Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Her latest is Danger and Other Unknown Risks. Buy her merch https://ericafails.threadless.com/ 

Alex de Campi is a writer of best selling horror/thrillers. Eisner-nominated for Bad Girls and Twisted Romance. She’s a returning guest on my show– listen to her talk about Dracula MF- https://bit.ly/alexdcVV

Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson reunite for Parasocial

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Bestselling Dracula, Motherf**ker creative team—Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson—reunite for the upcoming, original graphic novel Parasocial. This thrilling, psychological suspense story will hit shelves this October from Image Comics.

In the middle of the pandemic, a fading genre-TV actor, fresh from his long-running series’ cancellation, collides with an obsessive fan at a Texas convention. When she lures him to her home, he’ll have to put on the greatest performance of his life simply to survive until morning. Unless, of course, he’s the real monster…

Parasocial (ISBN: 978-1534399372) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, October 4 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo on Tuesday, October 10.

Parasocial