(Los Angeles, CA) MONSTERVERSE's FLESH AND BLOOD graphic novel to be released in bookstores via BOOKAZINE, the well known book wholesaler to book retailers and libraries worldwide.
FLESH AND BLOOD is currently being shipped to top bookstores across the nation for 2012.
"Get your orders in soon! We sold out of our first batch before we even got them." -Rick Gallagher, BOOKAZINE
The public's insatiable appetite for quality horror books has taken FLESH AND BLOOD out of the comic stores and into bookstores across the nation. The graphic novel started the year by winning BEST ORIGINAL HORROR GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2011 at ComicMonsters.com in competition with other new independent book along with major company releases such as HELLBOY, HELLBLAZER (Constantine) and DEADWORLD.
Monsterverse publisher and editor in chief Kerry Gammill is quite pleased with the interest generated in FLESH AND BLOOD and says, "We knew this book was special from the first time we saw it. Writer Robert Tinnell and artist Neil Vokes have created one of the most outstanding horror graphic novels in decades. Every page is a bloody delight for horror geeks. And this is just the first volume. You won't believe what will be following this over the next year!"
Sam F. Park handles editing and marketing for Monsterverse and notes, "FLESH AND BLOOD tracked off the charts with our research. It is smartly written and beautifully illustrated. The fans who have discovered it are extremely passionate for its mature and knowing telling. We have major film directors and the top comics industry professionals telling us this is the best horror book they've ever seen in comics. This book is bigger than the comics market because it goes straight for the jugular of the international horror community like a vampire from a Stephen King novel."
FLESH AND BLOOD's writer Robert Tinnell humbly appreciates the growing fan reaction as sales continue to climb higher. "I'm a fan myself. I love horror in all its forms. When I began this 'obsession' with FLESH AND BLOOD I hoped to craft a horror tale for the ages with literature's greatest iconic characters like they had never been seen before but also very grounded in the Gothic traditions, atmosphere and exotic places these characters and stories are known for. I wanted an epic sweep to how its story builds across decades and centuries but always tightly centered around the human side to every dark fall from grace or heroic triumph of each of its ensemble of characters. It is quite a challenge to get a proper balance to it all. Fortunately to push and pull me at times I also have the perfect collaborator in the superb illustrator, Neil Vokes."
Neil Vokes smiles devilishly when he hears this. "Sometimes it is more like we really are monsters tearing at each others' throats to get to the end of a scene." He laughs, "Bob and I have been working together for several years now on many books. We don't have to be nice to each other all the time because in the end we want the same thing which is the very best effort towards making a moment pop with the right amount of big grand action or quiet nuanced subtlety. Somehow we've grown to know each other so well that we can ride hell or high water through the wild parts of the creative process and end up with something the fans enjoy. I am astonished at how completely that FLESH AND BLOOD has been embraced by the fans and greatly appreciate their kind acknowledgments in the press and the passion they show for it at signings. It is what keeps me drawing at my desk day in and out, trying to do my best. I know the audience is out there. Waiting for the next book and I don't want to disappoint them."
FLESH AND BLOOD Volume One begins its graphic novel series with the bloody destruction of a legendary vampire, the darkly seductive Carmilla. Her death ignites an epic firestorm of events that draws the greatest icons of Gothic horror into battle across the lush backdrop of 19th century Europe. At the center of this ghastly conflict Baron Victor Frankenstein is forced to merge his diabolical scientific prowess with the black arts of a terrifying supernatural world. This unholy war between light and darkness will not be measured in months or years but across centuries of horror and devastation until one force reigns triumphant.
FLESH AND BLOOD TRAILER showcasing exciting scenes from the book along with special filmed action.
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"FLESH AND BLOOD is wonderful! The graphic novel equivalent of the horror movies that changed our lives." -JOE DANTE (director of GREMLINS and THE HOWLING)
Director (MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER, AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON) JOHN LANDIS says FLESH AND BLOOD is "TERRIFIC!"
FLESH AND BLOOD IS..."A top-notch package from cover to cover loaded with unexpected surprises along the way, which unfortunately seems almost a lost art in the genre. Great gothic fun in the tradition of the best of the Hammer films."
-John Cassaday (PLANETARY, ASTONISHING X-MEN, DGA DIRECTOR - DOLL HOUSE TV SERIES)
Along with FLESH AND BLOOD moving into bookstores Monsterverse's acclaimed BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE #2 horror anthology comic book has been listed in the January PREVIEWS magazine from Diamond. It will be released in MARCH with a stunning cover by make-up artist legend RICK BAKER who has garnered seven Academy Awards over his distinguished career working in the best of horror and any type of film. The Diamond Order # is JAN121179.
Rick Baker's stunning cover for issue #2 of BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE which also includes work by Kerry Gammill, Neil Vokes, Mike Hoffman, Jack Herman, Sam Park, James Groman, Kamil (Kurt) Kochanski, Joe Freire and more.
MONSTERVERSE ENTERTAINMENT is a transmedia company publishing comic books and devoted to produding horror in all mediums.
Kerry Gammill is publisher and editor of Monsterverse and a noted comic book and film design artist.
Kerry Gammill is publisher and editor of Monsterverse and a noted comic book and film design artist.
Sam F. Park is the west coast editor of Monsterverse projects and a producer/writer in Hollywood.
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