Some of My Comics @ the Bluestockings ComicFest!

 The Bluestockings Cooperative's Digital ComicFest is happening until May 30th and they are offering some of my comics there!

First one up is Laughter written by Gavin Dillinger, colors by Gab Contreras, and letters by Danny Djeljosevic! It's my first 26 page comic!

After losing their father to a demonic possession the family is forced to cope with their loss and the realization of a force they have never believed in.

You can check it out here: https://bluestockings.com/item/xpIVGgljvkSHcwttzOEs_A/lists/Dhn790amJvs/


Preview below:

Cover of Laughter Book 1, logo on top. A scrapbook with leaves and 4 photos. The firs t photo on the upper right is a mother holding her newborn in her arms covered in sweat. Baby is yawning. Second photo from the left is a little girl in her Christening outfit with the label 'Smiling Angel'. The photo below that is a little girl pretending to be asleep, smiling while poking the cheeks of a baby. The label on the photo is covered. Last big photo is labeled as 'Family Photo Day.' It's a photo of all 4 of them, the mother is wearing a purple dress holding the shoulder of the daughter in a pink shirt. The baby getting its cheeks poked is now older and is smiling. The father is behind him and next to the mother, but his face has been removed, caught in the bloody bite mark that encompasses the right side of the scrapbook page.

First panel is a dark silhouette of a woman on top of the stairs with a light going over the stairs. Next panel is her walking down the stairs, light shining in her face. Third panel is she looks into the room. Next bottom of panel she looks sad at the little girl with her arms up and her dad opening his arms to pick her up. Next panel the little girl is sitting on her dad's lap as he drinks a bottle of beer watching something on the computer screen. The woman, behind them goes to turn off the light as she walking past the room. Last panel both the father/daughter, computer screen, and the woman are gone. It's now dark.

First panel is shot of a full and organized fridge. A huge hand comes to pick up a bottle of beer with a note to on it that there are five bottles left and he is counting, love dad. Next panel is an open drawer with cutlery and other items. Next panel is the top of a beer bottle. Next panel is a bottle opener opening up the cap. Next panel is an uncertain mouth with the bottle coming closer. Next panel is the woman taking a big swig out of it. Last big panel is her making a disgusted face, remembering how crappy his taste in beer was.

First panel, the clock reads 3:02 am. Next is shot of her in the dark kitchen yawning with the bottle in hand. She hears a noise in the next panel that shocks her, hair standing up. She looks over her should, not moving her head as she hears a laugh from a dark silhouette behind her. Last big panel is a close up of metal chopsticks pulling up something pink and stretchy.


The second one is Tales From the Crypto written by Dalton Deschain and letters by Jeremiah Lambert. It's from Dalton's anti-capitalist series, Monocul:
A pulpy tale about greed and graveyards; eternity and eyeballs; heartbeats and hard drives!

You can check it out here: https://bluestockings.com/item/xpIVGgljvkR6eLcTa2mwrw/lists/Dhn790amJvs/ 

Preview below:

Our mummy introduces our story, the receipt paper of his old timey accounting machine leads to a dark and stormy night in a graveyard. Two men, one young and scared and one older, whistling, are holding shovels. Next panel an undershot as they both look at each other over a tombstone, thunder cracks between them. Next panel the shovels are thrust into the dirt. Last panel they both look through black dirt, covered in sweat and wearing less clothes than before.

Reveal a corpse of a man in a casket. His face and the pillow covered in maggots. He's holding onto something in his folded hands. A ragged hand comes to take the box that the corpse was holding. Next panel the older man with tattoos on his face gives the box to the younger one, mocking him as some words play through his phone. The younger adult looks around nervous at the all of the smoke. Big under shot of the older man on one knee holding the phone with the weird chants and pouring something into the casket.

Lightning strikes! A silhouette of the bottom of a man's face with maggots falling off. Big panel of the corpse come back to life, in shock, but grateful as he feels his decaying and eaten face. He asks how long he's been gone. The older man answers about 2.5 weeks, the younger one hiding behind him. The revived corpse shares his experience and how he can't go back to where he was. Old man with tattoos on his face pulls out a gun to us and demands the password for the black hard drive they pulled out of his hands earlier.



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