John Sears | October 31, 2010
This article from NPR entitled ’8 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Zombies’ is a truly awful piece of mishmash, patently obvious trivia combined with wild speculation on fashionable topics and theories mixed with outright factual errors. Not just errors about Zombies; errors about filmmaking, about the basic history of horror movies and the pop [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2010
A couple of the many videos we took last night at State Street. First, a quick random crowd scene to show how noisy and random the place can be: Then a video of one of the best costumes there, a frilly feathery red dragon thing: Finally for this update, check out a good example of [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2010
Here I will present you with a small selection of pictures from Madison’s Halloween festivities. For more you can go check out our flickr page here and here. Happy Halloween, Zombie Rights Enthusiasts! Before we get to the pictures of individual costumes, it’s worth noting just how big the annual Halloween festivities are in Madison, [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2010
Perhaps I’m not paranoid enough, for I forgot to ponder the question of whether, in fact, the confiscation of our yard sticks was part of an attempt to suppress unwanted political messaging, ie, an attempt to stop us from spreading the word about Zombie Rights to the Madisonian crowd. Does the City of Madison have [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2010
The Zombie Rights Campaign made our annual trek to the enormous outdoor Halloween costume party (which the city has rebranded as ‘Freakfest’ in recent years) last night, and it was a decided mixed bag. On the one hand, there were numerous opportunities to advance the cause of Zombie Rights. We picketed, marched, chanted, protested, talked [...]
John Sears | October 30, 2010
(I learned about this via this site)
John Sears | October 29, 2010
Recently, The Zombie Rights Campaign announced its nominees for Zombie of the Year 2010. It was a diverse list, with personalities and people from a wide variety of media, both fictional and non-fictional, and it proved very difficult to select a final award winner from so many worthy individuals. Still, in the end, there was [...]
John Sears | October 28, 2010
Take a look at this failed opportunity to allow Living people to walk a mile in Zombie shoes: Turn Into A Zombie Ask me about my zombie shirt… BAM! Instantly turn into a zombie by flipping this shirt over your head. Patent Pending It’s a pity too; letting people experience life as a Zombie, even [...]
John Sears | October 28, 2010
Via Horror Society we learn of an interactive theatre event involving negative Zombie portrayals in Chicago: CHICAGO, ILL. – October 5, 2010 – From October 21 through November 6 the audience-interactive theatrical event, Zombies Attack Chicago, is returning for its third year to The Spot at 4437 N. Broadway in Uptown. This time around, Colonel [...]
John Sears | October 27, 2010
The comic book world has had to deal with Rob Liefeld for a long time; the ZRC more recently when he did some of the art for Prelude to Deadpool Corps, and then picked up regular art duties on the main series that followed. (A review of Prelude is forthcoming, but first we’re retooling our [...]