Jason Yungbluth is a writer for Mad Magazine, and creator of the comics Deep Fried and Weapon Brown. Deep Fried is an ensemble of Sunday comics gone mad, both in web and paper comic formats. The craziest of these is Weapon Brown, a post-apocalyptic Charlie Brown that you really have to see firsthand.
Jason Moody is the artist for a comic called Scarlet Veronica. It comes out in the fall, and it looks like it's going to be pretty fierce. It's about this zombie girl who... fights evil? I can't say that for certain. I do know that she's definitely undead, and the previews are looking pretty slick. Check out this trailer and the preview pages.
Ken Haeser sketched this zombie for me. Ken is the artist for The Living Corpse, about a zombie who breaks free of the insatiable desire for brains, and begins fighting for good. There are only a handful of issues out, but it's already being made into a major motion picture by Shoreline Entertainment. I am definitely looking forward to it.
I still cannot believe that David Petersen provided me with this sketch. Just look at the thing; the tattered mouse ear, the limp arm. Even at 21x the height of a little zombie like this, I'd be terrified of seeing this guy shambling across the forest floor towards me.
Christopher Mitten is the artist responsible for Wasteland. Wasteland is incredible. It's vast, it's epic, and there are sand-eaters. Sand-eaters are like zombies, except they're probably alive and they have really sharp teeth. Read the first, double-sized issue for free.
Paul Ziomek and Peter Ziomek make up Over the Top, and are part of 7000 BC, an independent comics group based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They create an awesome brand of home-grown comics; the kind of soulful narrative that you'll be hard-pressed to find in a majority of comics on the shelf these days.
Katie Cook is an amazing illustrator who has a penchant for the cute/funny. It was through Katie that the phenomenon of sketch cards came to my attention. I had no idea that other people were collecting/creating small illustrations on blank cards. That's pretty awesome. Star Wars sketch cards? Sign me up.
God. If Chris had sketched this, looked at it, and said to me, "I'm sorry, this is just too good. I'm going to keep it, because you don't deserve it," I would have understood. He would have been right too. I almost feel guilty asking for sketches from artists like Chris. It's a waste of their time, but I am forever grateful. Just look at that guy up there.
Tom Brazelton, of Theater Hopper fame, sketched this zombified... well, I think that's himself. Eerie.
