From Tula Lotay and Helen Mullane, Groupies is a “sinister, supernatural, and intoxicating” 5-issue comedian e book sequence being launched by Comixology Originals. With the primary challenge due out on October twenty second, we’ve an unique preview you may learn proper now!
“Scorching on the heels of her Eisner Award-winning comedian e book Barnstormers with Scott Snyder and up to date collaboration with Becky Cloonan on the evocative sequence Somna, Tula Lotay heads to the Sundown Strip and the world of intercourse, medicine and rock and roll with Groupies. Introduced timed to Comedian-Con Worldwide San Diego, Groupies – co-created with author Helen Mullane (Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen, Superstate) – is a chilling journey into the center of rock and roll extra.
Followers of Lotay’s work shall be enraptured by her artwork on this sinister, supernatural, and intoxicating all-new 5-issue comedian e book sequence. That includes colours by Dee Cunniffe and Lotay, lettering and design by Richard Starkings and Comicraft’s Tyler Smith and edits by Will Dennis, Groupies #1 arrives October 22, 2024, from Comixology Originals, Amazon’s unique digital content material line.”
Synopsis: “On a wild evening out on the Fox Membership, the best, hottest, and wildest ladies on (or off) the Sundown Strip meet the edgiest up-and-coming band on the town, and sparks fly. The Moon Present’s stardom is about to rise as they have a good time getting signed to the legendary Asmodeus Information. The women and the band share a magical evening, an evening that no one needs to finish.
Because the story unfolds, the excited groupies head on tour with the band – dwelling the dream – however their tuned-in and dropped-out idyll is about to unravel. One thing darkish is pulling the strings, and the ladies are about to find the true value of rock and roll.”
“I’ve at all times been fascinated by the lives of groupies,” says author Helen Mullane. “The daring trend, devil-may-care life-style, and the ladies’ willpower, getting their kicks regardless of most folks’s censure and judgement. It is a world of glamour and darkness, the place some folks have their wildest goals come true, whereas others are chewed up and spat out. Our story is a blood-soaked and acid-drenched journey into the center of darkness, the place most individuals are out for what they will get. However simply because the ladies reside in a world that sees them as disposable, does not make them any much less extraordinary.”
“Groupies is a dream to work on,” says artist Tula Lotay. “I’ve identified Helen for ages and we share precisely the identical pursuits in horror and music so it is the right story for us to inform collectively – attractive, darkish, twisted rock on the peak of the Satanic Panic.”
Mullane continued, “It has been a dream to collaborate with Tula Lotay on this e book. The surreal and emotive fantastic thing about her work transports you straight into the thick of the scene. She has created a world that’s so opulent you may virtually overlook how harmful it’s. Nearly.”
“Tula’s gorgeous artwork continues to raise the comics studying expertise,” says Jeff DiBartolomeo, Comixology’s GM and CTO. “What she and Helen have created in Groupies is a mesmerizing fictional look into the world of rockstars and the fangirls who observe them – the sweetness and the horror. The anticipation of the launch of this wonderful sequence offers us the identical feeling we get when the home lights have simply come down and the present is about to start out!”
To study extra and pre-order the primary challenge, go to: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D9NW5MZD
