UNPUBLISHED
“ZOMBURGERS!” COMIC STRIP
Artists
that were signed on to create comic artwork for IDW’s at-the-time forthcoming
GPK comic book, surrounding the 30th anniversary hype, were instructed to submit
their stories. No clear instruction was given and IDW eventually went with a very
thematic compilation format — so, many initial submissions did not make it into
the comic book releases. IDW’s approach was also very heavy on underground artists
and their interpretive ideas, thus leaving out the core group of actual GPK artists
from most of the project. If one were to compile the published works from Simko,
Engstrom and Zapata into one comic, with Pingitore’s covers and Engstrom’s bonus
cards, it would be a very strong comic… unfortuantely, the guest spots outweighed
the GPK heavy hitters.
Brent Engstrom had two such unreleased works from
the IDW comic book days, in a black and white concept stage only; he has graciously
allowed me to showcase his unpublished GPK comic artwork and story and have ‘Mad
MIKE’ Boyajian process the coloring. The second of the two comics includes GPK
all-stars Grilled GIL (OS7), Ghost TORY (ANS7), Dead TED (OS1), WAYNE N Moon (2014S1)
and a human character that reminds me of Mel from Mel’s Diner (on “Alice”).
