Death Is A Warm Embrace
After launching ‘What Will Boys Be?”, their first collaborative graphic short story, Chislett and Moon return with a more traditional horror story, “Death Is A Warm Embrace.”
A dark and to the point tale with a lovely, horrific twist at the end, Death Is A Warm Embrace is a classic horror tale. But to say more would be to give the game away.
“We were pretty happy with the reaction to our first collaboration,” says Chislett of the process, “So we wanted to carry on with it. We are seriously considering printing up some actual copies in the future as well. This story was a nice one to do as it also shows a whole other angle of what Manik and I do… it’s a different genre of story and the illustration style is different as well.”
Moon was the creator of the Evil Barbie comic strip from the legendary but now defunct GTFO magazine, and started the band Abstract Evil Barbie as a real world spin off from the strip. His work was first published in Andy Masons’s Pre-Azanian Comix (P.A.X.) way back in the eighties and he eventually edited the last few issues. He has also published his own ‘zine ‘Substitute’ for a while, featuring an ongoing project ‘Karoo Rats’, set in a post apocalyptic South Africa. He has also done commercial cartooning for Savana Cider, I-Week and Something Wicked.
Chislett is the originator of the Urban series of short fiction for new and exciting writers. He played in various bad punk bands in the 80’s and early nineties, culminating in a support slot for The Prodigy in the Cape Town hard electronica outfit Anti Gravity. He is currently in the process of publishing Urban 04, an anthology of his own short stories and a beginner’s guide to the SA music industry.
“Death Is A Warm Embrace” will be published in week day installments on www.thechiz.co.za starting on 10 November 2008. The full collection of plates will be available in physical form on demand at a later date.
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