John Sears | January 8, 2011
Alert cultural historian and ZRC Stringer Andrew Leal pointed the ZRC toward a couple of recent newspaper comics that featured Zombie snowmen… in a very negative light. Now, I know what many of you are thinking: “Newspapers still have comics?” Astonishingly enough, they do! What’s more, they almost all pick the comics to grace their [...]
John Sears | January 4, 2011
This article from The Observer chronicles the quest by two French photojournalists to explore a real post-apocalyptic landscape in this era where we as a society constantly dramatize the fake apocalypses and blame them on Zombies. Of course, here the ruin of an entire city and way of life was not caused by the Differently [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
The ZRC was alerted by the great and powerful Googles to this fascinating bit of inside baseball talk on the very roundabout way a new screenplay about a Zombie baby is making the rounds in Hollywood, and just might get made into a film: “There are plenty of movies about killing zombies, but I’ve never [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
The ZRC had a brief but productive dialogue with author Jonathan Maberry back in October of 2009 on the topic of Zombie portrayals and the Zombie Apocalypse… or so we thought. His latest book about Zombies, Rot and Ruin, is out now and on the ZRC’s review pile, but I’m not here to talk about [...]
John Sears | December 11, 2010
It’s to be expected, though not of course approved of, that The Walking Dead’s enormous commercial success will cause a certain amount of navel-gazing and faux-introspection on the part of the Mainstream Media, attempting to explain its own staggering financial haul even as their various media platforms fade into increasing obsolescence in the post-modern era. [...]
John Sears | October 26, 2010
I already mentioned the shameless stunts being pulled by AMC with their faux-Zombie protests worldwide to promote their odious adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s travesty of a comic book series. However, it fell to the mainstream press to pour salt in the emotional wounds of the Zombie Rights movement that said stunts inflicted. From the Washington [...]