Sorry for the lack of updates, been a hectic couple of months. Anyway, here is a lunchtime sketch to hold you over. I love this one so much I’m going to find a way to fit it into one of the fight scenes in the comic, shouldn’t be hard, there are several zombie fight scenes.

HB and B pencil in a moleskine sketchbook.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks.

Where to begin?  A book of fiction that reads like really well written non-fiction.  Written in the style of personal interviews, sewn together to provide a narrative from the beginning of the war to it’s end, where the main character is the war itself rather than any single character.  Or, alternatively, you can think of it as a bunch of well fleshed out pitch stories for a mass of zombie movies, varying in locale and scope, with a variety of character types from homemakers to politicians to soldiers.

Now, did I like it?  Yes I did, it reads smoothly, was enjoyable and was for the most part, and most importantly it was hard to put down a lot of the time.  There are times an interview ends with me wanting more of that person’s story, but Brooks moves onto the next interview to keep things rolling along.  Interviews range from several pages to one sentence.

A dark sense of humor pervades, allusions to modern day people without naming names leaves much to your imagination.  A hefty dose of political and social commentary is present, as often is in works involving the big Z, but it’s not heavy handed.

I’d recommend it to anyone with of love of the undead shuffling masses, and even those that just need something good to read!

Just a sketch of a zombie with a bit of of an upclose on his face, the undead are just plain fun to draw

Done with non-repro blue pencil in a moleskin sketchbook