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HEY! You guys remember when we all got together and won that big “Zuda” webcomic contest last year? The one where you all came out to vote for my ELDRITCH! comic, with all the tentacles and so on? Our pal Drew Rausch drew it? Those were crazy times!
“Yeah, whatever happened with that?” you’re maybe (hopefully) asking. “Is ELDRITCH! just dead now or what?”
NO IT IS NOT. Let me explain, in the form with which I am least comfortable: A PRESS RELEASE (which you’re seeing before any actual “press” does, because… well, why shouldn’t you?):
ELDRITCH! SHOCKED BACK TO LIFE THIS JUNE
Anya Sobczek is a snarling science major with an arm full of Darwin tattoos. Her brother Owen is a sensitive lad in a coven of teenage occultists. The Sobczek sibs don’t get along at the best of times, but now that Owen’s body has started bubbling with ancient tentacled beasties, their rivalry’s about to enter a whole new dimension of cosmic terror.
2010: Artists Drew Rausch and Aaron Alexovich hurled their infectious horror/comedy hybrid ELDRITCH! into blazing combat in DC Comics’ final Zuda webcomic competition. After several centuries it emerged, dazed and confused, with the word WINNER indelibly etched on its forehead.
It was promptly buried in an unmarked grave.
This summer, ELDRITCH! will be shocked back to life.
Aaron and Drew are feverishly happy to announce they’ve partnered with the mad doctors at COMIXOLOGY and GRAPHIC.LY to unleash ELDRITCH! onto every digital format they can sink their claws into, including iPad/iPod/iPhone, Android devices, your home computer and eNecronomicon (pending). Nook and Kindle versions are also in the works.
Starting THIS JUNE, ELDRITCH! will be released in six 24-page monthly installments, priced at $0.99 each. You can download the first nine totally reworked pages HERE: heartshapedskull.com/ELDRITCH/ELDRITCH_preview.pdf
You have waited long enough, Elder Things. Thank you to everyone who helped push ELDRITCH! to victory in 2010, and we hope to drive you all to gibbering madness in 2011. Help spread the infection!
About Aaron Alexovich: Aaron is the artist/writer of the spookycute horror series Serenity Rose and the teen cyberpunk novel Kimmie66. He’s also worked as an artist on Fables, Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Confessions of a Blabbermouth, and (in the animation world) Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender. AND ALSO MORE: heartshapedskull.com
About Drew Rausch: Drew Rausch is best known for his spooky scratchy cartoon work as seen in the pages of CTHULHU TALES, ZOMBIE TALES, DISNEY’S HAUNTED MANSION and THE DARK GOODBYE. He also co-created SULLENGREY. Proof of his artistic existence can be found at dreadscape.deviantart.com and sullengrey.blogspot.com.
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ELDRITCH! (for those who aren’t already sick to death of hearing me bang on about it) is a bloody Lovecraftian horror/comedy comic scribbled out by me and illustrated by “Devilish” Drew Rausch. It’s filled to bursting with strange humans, stranger monsters, Darwin tattoos, meat cleavers, magic spells, twitchering black tentacles, poorly-remembered Bon Jovi songs and all the best stuff there is! Starting TODAY we’ll be selling ELDRITCH! as a series of six 24-page digital downloads every six weeks, with each one priced at an almost unfathomably low $0.99.
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You have a few options to choose from, the simplest being a pdf file downloaded straight from us right HERE. The pdf will work on pretty much any device you own (try your toaster!), including iPad/Phone/Pod, Nook, Kindle, Android thingummy, and, of course, your desktop (Mac and PC). Basically, if you’re reading this… you can read ELDRITCH!
And just for today, we have a special-type offer: Buy your copy of ELDRITCH!, send a message to serenity@heartshapedskull.com, and you’ll be entered to win ORIGINAL SKETCHES by both me and Drew. And for every 100 copies we sell today, we’ll pick a new winner. There is, quite simply, no better way to injure yourselves with our work.
Thank you so much for your support, guys! The indie comic scene is NOT an easy place to get a small voice heard, and I really appreciate what you’ve done to help amplify mine. It means a lot, and more and more as time goes on. The comic world is shifting beneath us, and as scary as it can sometimes be, it’s also the most exciting time of my life.
Please let me know what you think! Both content-wise and format-wise, I mean. (Did the pdf work for you? How does it look? Was the process simple enough? That Ted Newbarn, he sure is a freakish character, ain’t he?) We’re still working out the kinks here, so we’d LOVE it if you could leave a comment here, at the ELDRITCH! site, or – for those so Facebook-inclined – at the ELDRITCH! Official Fan Lair.
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TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY (Hooray!). And the greatest gift of all is, of course, the gift of you reading ELDRITCH! #2, the latest chapter of my Lovecraftianish horro-monstomedy with spectacularly hideous art by Dastardly Drew Rausch (impenetrably scribbley page layouts and shtoinky Don-Martinesque SFX by me).
“Chapter Two: A HISS FROM THE CRADLE.
“Owen Sobczek is filled with angry black worms. His fearsome skeptic sister Anya wants to know WHY. They might have been conjured by Owen’s coven of wealthy teenage occultists. They might have been built behind locked doors in the Newbarns’ suspiciously lovely home. Or they may have crawled out from someplace much, much darker.
The terror writhes deep under your skin in the new chapter of ELDRITCH!”
Digital Download | 24 Pages | Available NOW.
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We really stepped up our “game” for this one, guys. The way Drew handles Owen’s creepy pal Chaston Willoughby III… it’s just UNREAL. I still have nightmares about that guy’s teeth, and he’s not even the MONSTER in this one. Eerie, eerie teeth. Unsettling chompers.
The SECOND greatest gift you could give me for my birthday, though, would be a 3D rendering of Serenity Rose in her legendary “Heartbreaker” pose, with maybe some sweet electro-industrial thwanging in the background. Anyone got one of those?
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Heartbreakers: Sera from Lathan Lindsey on Vimeo.
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How cool is THAT? Thanks so much, Lathan! (One day she must be animated.)
Thank you for supporting the comics, everyone! And especially thank you to everyone who came out to see Drew and me in San Diego. I apologize for all the weeping and violent profanity, and promise it will never happen again. At least until the Alternative Press Expo in October.
Happy Birthday to me!
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I mean, just LOOK at that little guy:
Are you strong enough to handle that kind of horror? Well, all right then…
ELDRITCH! #3: “The Instruments of Fear”
Anya Sobczek is locked in a Chamber of Horrors. A surgical table. Rusty scalpels. A tank of roiling black blood, dozens of mean-looking machines, and the hissing head of Medusa herself. CLACK – the door opens, and Anya the Unbeliever gets ready to start a war…STRIKE A BLOW FOR SCIENCE in the new chapter of ELDRITCH!
We’ve got a special promotion this time around for you stalwart ELDRITCH!ites roaming the ELDRITCH!lands… Everyone who’s successfully endured all three issues to date is entitled to a FREE digital copy of “Drippin’” Drew Rausch and “Joltin’” Jocelyn Gajeway’s horror book SULLENGREY, observable below:
It’s why you don’t let your feet dangle over the bed while you sleep. It’s the reason you feel dread while passing dark alleys and why you lock the deadbolt at night. It’s already inside you…. and it’s HUNGRY! Welcome to Autumn’s Grove, a normal little town where your fears manifest, then devour you whole!
To get your free copy and ensure you never sleep again, please check and make sure you’ve purchased all three issues of ELDRITCH! (might be under the cushions there), then send us a request right HERE.
Thank you for all your support, folks! ELDRITCH! #4 will shamble over and say hello on Wednesday, October 19th.
HAPPY XMAS (THE WORLD IS OVER).
ELDRITCH! #4: “The Dream-Quest of Ted Newbarn”
Theodore “Ted” Newbarn is a real “Regular Joe.” He likes fast cars, chocolate cake, Huey Lewis AND The News. He also has a torso filled with angry black tentacles and an unkillable demon for a baby. And as soon as he figures all that out… man, oh man, things are gonna BURN.
RING IN A TERRIBLE NEW YEAR with a fresh serving of ELDRITCH!
Digital Download | 24 Pages | Available NOW.
ELDRITCH! has returned unto you, ye devoted! Your conjurers humbly beg FORGIVENESS for the impure conjurings that delayed our final victory. But fear not! Even now, ELDRITCH! #5 charges toward us through the snow-choked hinterland, drawing ever closer…
The end-game begins in the cold heart of FEBRUARY, 2012!
HAPPY CTHULHSMAS, EVERYONE! Don’t forget to sacrifice some things!
