
“It’s been a true joy working with Jude and A.L. MAW #1 features main cover art by artist Ariela Kristantina (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr), and variant cover art by acclaimed illustrators Megan Hutchison-Cates (The Nice House on the Lake), Abigail Jill Harding (Ask for Mercy), and more. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram is a fun, dark dive into how monsters-both fantastic and real-are made,” said Kaplan. He illustrated an issue of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller published by BOOM! Studios and self-published the comic Full-Spectrum Therapy. Kaplan is an American cartoonist and horror aficionado currently living, drawing, and blasting doom metal to his cats in the Wild West. Kaplan on this, and I can’t wait to share it with you. It’s been an honor to work with BOOM! and A.L. It’s a love letter to all the ways horror can tell powerful, subversive and transformative stories about gender, and it’s a big, messy chunk of my heart that I somehow got paid to throw on a page. “MAW might be the most fun I’ve ever had as a writer. Their columns on gender, power, and pop culture have appeared at GEN, Elle, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and all over the Internet. Doyle (they/he) is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock and Fear… and Why (Melville House, 2016) and Dead Blondes and Bad Powers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019). When the townsfolk react with suspicion and violence, what unforgivable act will transform Marion into the very monster they’ve made her out to be? The violent encounter awakens something in Marion she never imagined, triggering warped mutations in her body, and bringing forth a hunger she can’t bring herself to name. But everything is horribly derailed after an assault on their first night there. Kaplan (Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters), that explores the anger of those trapped by society’s expectations and the monsters born from that collective rage, available in September 2021.ĭragged by her sister Wendy to a feminist retreat on the remote island of Angitia, Marion Angela Weber hopes to gain some perspective and empowerment… that isn’t at the bottom of a bottle. Doyle (Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power) and artist A.L.
The monster within comic series#
Media Release - BOOM! Studios today announced MAW, a provocative five-issue horror series by award-winning journalist and opinion writer Jude Ellison S. Kaplan are bringing their new original horror series MAW to BOOM! Studios.
