Arthur Suydam talks about his Marvel Zombies covers and his start in comics, over at Comic Book Resources. You also get side by side comparisons of his covers and the original covers that inspired them.

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Revenant Magazine has an interview up with Jim Ojala and Scotty Fields, the creators behind the fan film “trailer” for Marvel Zombies: The Movie, including some great “behind the scenes” photos. If you missed out on seeing this when we first posted it, unfortunately the YouTube link is dead, with this message posted instead:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Marvel Entertainment, Inc.

You would think that Marvel would embrace this for what it is…a fan film. DC did it with Batman: Dead End, why can’t Marvel?

EDIT: Thanks to Revenant for letting us know that the video is available again via MySpaceTV:

MARVEL ZOMBIES THE MOVIE

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The January issue of Rue Morgue , #75 on sale now, has some great zombie related interviews and articles inside. Included is an interview with George A. Romero (concerning Diary of the Dead, zombie films in general and the travesty of Day of the Dead 2: Contagium) and articles on Babylon Fields (the zombie series CBS passed on picking up), the re-mastered DVD reissue of the 1964 film, The Last Man On Earth, with Vincent Price (depending where you stand on that argument - this is the only version that I consider to be remotely a zombie film), and Rob Sachetto (from zombieportraits.com). Plus a great year-end wrap-up on the best of horror and the “Top Six Romero Gore Gags”! Only $8.95 US/CAN.

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Available now from Avatar Press is the new hardcover edition of Warren Ellis and Jacen Burrows zombie epic Blackgas, 144 pages of full color gore for $27.99. For more info on the original series, read an interview with Ellis about Blackgas, from November 2005. From the book’s description on Amazon:

A tiny little island off the East Coast of America, that sits on its own tiny little fault on the underlying tectonic plate. An odd little history ignored by almost everyone… until the night of the big storm, and the crack in the fault line, and the release of something foul from the earth’s guts, blown across the little town of Smoky Island. And the only two people on the island who were outside its reach are now trapped on a black spit of rock with a population who aren’t people anymore - they started eating each other an hour ago!

I can’t really push this comic enough, it’s really amazing and Burrow’s art is a perfect fit for this series. Definitely check out this book if you are at all a fan of zombie/ horror comics. And lastly, take a look at this “gore” variant cover from it’s original serialized run:

 

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The book Monster Island, by David Wellington, has been picked up by Zero Hour Films to be made into a movie , according to Shock Till You Drop. Screenwriter Steven Susco (The Grudge) is adapting it for the screen, that is, once the screenwriters strike is over. Read the very short interview with Susco, here. Could this be the beginning of a new zombie film franchise, with Wellington’s sequels, Monster Nation and Monster Planet?

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Primotechnology.com has an interview up with Adrian Ciszewski, producer of the upcoming zombie video game Dead Island.

PT: AI is tricky in a zombie game because zombies don’t have a whole lot of brains to begin with. At least, brains of their own. How do you overcome this?

AC: No one really knows how zombies act because they don’t really exist. That’s why we got a lot of freedom. Of course we want to be accurate with George A. Romero and other creators of the zombie subject. In Dead Island zombies behavior is based on primal instincts, I would even say it’s animal-like. The main character can take advantage of zombies constant hunger for fresh human flesh, for example if he sees a small group of slow walking undead he can act as a bait and get them to a hostile camp to do their thing and I don’t mean engage in small talk.

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There’s a new zombie web series in production in Michigan, called Heaven’s Gate. You can see the teaser trailer here and read more about the production here. The gore looks good and they seem to have a decent amount of actors willing to get zombified and messed up, but we’ll have to wait and see how the plot and acting turns out. You can read an interview with creator J. Scott here. A quote from J. Scott, from that article:

I like to look at it as the sequel to every zombie movie ever made,” Scott, 33, said. “Most (zombie) movies take place in the city; they show all the destruction - this is the country’s point of view.

We’ll keep you up to date as to when the web series will premiere.

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Faith Erin Hicks, creator of the zombie comic Zombies Calling, is interviewed by Halifax’s The Coast. Zombies Calling is out now, from Slave Labor Graphics, and you can read sample pages here. Check it out.

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iF Magazine has a really great interview with Fido director Andrew Currie. Go check it out.

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Go read this great article on the Undead Citizens’ Alliance, based out of Oregon. Best quote from article:

“My biggest fear as a mother was always a zombie attack”

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