CROSSED: ANNUAL #1

..is in stores today.

It revolves around a character from the weekly webcomic I write, Wish You Were Here (though neither requires that the other has been read). Specifically, semi-resident wetsuit-wearing sheep-fucking nutcase Jackson.

I won’t pretend it’s not violent and brutal and extremely not-for-kids, but it’s also an experimentally-told trippy colour-coded splat of hallucinogenic MENTALVISION featuring exploding halal kebabs, international conspiracies and a horse hybridised with Queen Elizabeth II.  

It has a front cover (plus a bunch of variants) that looks a little like this:

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE - winner of the 2012 “Ghastly” award for best Horror Webcomic

Named for acclaimed comics creator “Ghastly” Graham Ingels, the Awards are in their 2nd year. Created to honor excellence in Horror Comics, every comic creator had a say in who the nominees were by nominating their favorites throughout the year.
Best Web Comic: Crossed: Wish You Were Here (www.crossedcomic.com)

 

Full list of: GHASTLY AWARDS

And here’s what all the fuss is about: CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE - a free weekly apocalyptic thoughtful survivalist epistolic grimsaga, undeniably Not Safe For Work, now up to a whopping 456 pages.

I mean it about the Not Safe For Work thing.

Sneakpeeks: Crossed — Annual #1

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The first “Crossed” comics serial was a brutal, razor-sharp exploration of moral programming, social values and the human condition, disguised as an apocalyptic survival-drama, written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Jacen Burrows in 2007. Orrrr it was merely a sick-minded violencefest with no redeeming features and an antagonist gratuitously fond of equestrian todgers, depending on your predisposition. It’s spawned a plethora of spin-offs in a dozen different genres by a dozen creative teams - each one a self-contained story featuring new characters and new situations within Garth’s apocalyptic world.

One such story is Crossed: Wish You Were Here, the ongoing and completely free weekly webcomic written by yours truly. Which is a either a thoughtful, tragicomic and vaguely metafictional exercise in epistolic emotion, or a disgusting medley of wretchedness and horror featuring - for no good reason - a man violating a dolphin. Depending on your etc etc etc.  

Either way, you should be reading it. It’s had some amazing critical feedback, it’s up for a couple of awards at the moment, and there are 400+ plages of it completely gratis online. I’ll talk more about that another day.

For now, be aware that there’s a forthcoming Annual, drawn by Gabriel Andrade and written by me. It vaguely ties into the webcomic, but if you’re looking for an access point to get into the vast and vile world of Crossed, this is the one. It hits shelves in February - DETAILS and PREORDER INFO HERE - and I figured you might like a cheeky preview of the art. 

Above ‘n below, folks, above ‘n below.

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