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Z O M B I E P A T R O L I N T R O D U C T I O N
In high school I was asked to draw a friend a picture. I drew a punk zombie. I continued to ad to the drawing in my spare time and what emerged from this was a series of panels that eventually fell together haphazardly into a working story line to which future plot ideas, characters and collage panels would be soon be added. So was born the 80's post-punk influenced zombie tale I call ZOMBIE PATROL. The individual parts or "sequences" that were created after that were influenced by the world around me as much as random suggestions from friends. Many of my friends who I used as characters and the music we enjoyed at the time continually surface in the story, some just as bit players in the background and some as critical characters. Each part also represents the particular artistic style that I enjoyed at the time, some sequences were done with just a ball point pen and paper, others with cut and paste and for later sequences using more computer effects coupled with hand drawings. These wildly differing episodes all worked themselves together in a single volume to finally complete the series.
This was something to have fun with and pass the time, in school, at home, at friends houses, in mental wards ... where ever I could find the time and add to it I would. I turned in the hand bound originals or sequences 1-4 for portfolio class in high school and got one of the four highest grads in the class. One of my English teachers later had sequence 4 printed in the schools newspaper, which I though was odd since it had very heavy drug references. After high school I worked on the books here and there, sometimes it would sit and collect dust for years. But the books always stayed with me and in tact. Though I never intended to publish it in any way, the internet has provided me a unique way to reinvent it and present it in full for the first time for its 20 year anniversary. As well as giving all the other people involved a chance to remember a glimpse of those days. This is why it is provided here at no charge thanks to MOVEMENT Comics.
The end result of all this is a story based on the classic principle of good vs. evil. A confrontation of the ultimate evil and the most unlikely good. Early on in the story the culmination of evil rears it's head in a condensed form referred to as "the Beast." But evil has many faces and so does the Beast. So chaotic that it cannot hold a single form for long, so his appearance changes throughout the entire story. As all evil tends to do it searches relentlessly to acquire and destroy without prejudice or remorse.
This is the most deadly threat to humanity and could ultimately be its undoing.
Click below to begin the journey...
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