John Sears | July 22, 2011
Yes, that’s right; a tv series itself based on a long-running comic is getting its own, separate book publishing arrangement. Thankfully, perhaps, for the state of literature itself, these are neither the sort of genre pulp churned out to complement certain videogame/film franchises nor are they novelizations of the show, but rather they appear to [...]
John Sears | July 22, 2011
Light spoilers below in the io9 interview excerpts, proceed with caution: You know, when I click an io9 link about Zombies I honestly grimace a bit. Going to their site to read anything about the Differently Animated is usually the mental equivalent of smacking myself in the hand with a hammer. Yet of course, I [...]
John Sears | July 17, 2011
I have fond memories of my four years at Indiana University. Well, four years in school for me, then living on campus for a while with the art director, but you get the idea. Indiana University has a fairly prominent student paper, the Indiana Daily Student. As the title suggests, it is written and published [...]
John Sears | July 12, 2011
Well, the North American Discworld Con has come and gone, and the ZRC had a lot of delightful interactions, formed a lot of delightful memories and is itching to get back to our day to day tasks. We talked with dozens of Zombie fans, and those more skeptical about the good intentions of our Zombie [...]
John Sears | July 10, 2011
We had another fantastically productive day at the North American Discworld Convention! Some highlights of the last two days: –Yesterday Death came up to us (in costume) and jokingly complained about Zombies: ‘TALK ABOUT A REVOLVING DOOR!’ –Also yesterday, a young boy asked us what we were doing and we explained our noble Cause, to [...]
John Sears | July 9, 2011
We had a great time at the Convention today! Sold a bunch of merch, our shirt supplies are just devastated, we will reorder this weekend but it should take a couple of weeks to be back at full strength. Wristbands are getting low too! Such fun. Plus we raise money for Lynn Sage that way [...]
John Sears | July 8, 2011
The ZRC will be at the North American Discworld Con for the next four days, which is one of the longest con sessions we’ve ever been to! It is located at the lovely Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison about, oh, a block and a half from the Capitol. We’re on the first floor behind the [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Just putting this one up on the big Zombie Walk board, so to speak: add Duluth to the list of cities that hosts an outing for the Differently Animated, sympathizers and just hangers-on: If you saw a bloody-mouthed, limping zombie Thursday wailing about brains and dragging entrails along Superior Street, don’t worry: It wasn’t the [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
The ZRC was alerted to this upcoming book on Twitter this morning and I have to say, it’s both an ingenious and evil concept. First, the Tweet that started it all: We just got the link for our book on Amazon: “Dead Inside: Do Not Enter” http://amzn.to/l5Ok2C coming out 9/21 Preorder Now!!! #MFZAR The book [...]
John Sears | June 26, 2011
I had previously discussed a review on BuyZombie of ‘The Dishonored Dead’ by Robert Swartwood here on the ZRC blog, and the author was kind enough to send us a review copy to peruse. I got a bit sidetracked by Chicago outings/madness, and also wanted to give myself plenty of time to digest the book [...]