Who hasn’t wanted to bite your coworkers? Bitemark comic kickstarter is live
Independent Canadian comic publisher Lucha Comics has launched manga horror’s new book to beat, Bitemark. On their fourth successful kickstarter and picked by Kickstarter as a “Project We Love”, Bitemark takes a chomp out of representation in the workplace with African American woman as the protagonists of the story who have been historically underrepresented in the genre.
Bitemark
is one part comedy, one part horror and the revenge on type A
co-workers the world has been waiting for. Support the campaign today at
https://www.kickstarter.com/
Title: Bitemark
Publisher: Lucha Comics
Format: 6x9 inches, 110 pages, Black and White
Writer: Michael Stinson
Artist: Devan Muse
Description: Following
in the tradition of classic horror tales like An American Werewolf in
London, Ginger Snaps, and The Howling, Bitemark is our take on werewolf
lore. Although treated like a curse by some, lycanthropy is a
superpower—a means to reinvent the identity of our protagonist through
bestial strength and instilling fear at just a glance of the furry
mutated form. This blood-shedding power is tempting to a timid office
drone like the protagonist, Miki, who is trampled upon by her A-Type
coworkers.
Miki
must stand up for herself when she has withstood enough of her
malicious coworkers taking advantage of her. A healing retreat with her
best friend, Ana, instead brings Miki more trouble when Ana reveals a
monstrous path to revenge that involves a particular carnivorous diet
that she’s not sure she’ll be able to stomach.
Michael Stinson commented, "We decided to make our two central characters, Miki and Ana, young Black women. Not because of our personal identities but because strong, young Black women are grievously underrepresented in the media as central characters. There are too few comics and films with women of color as the lead, especially in the horror genre. It was important to me to feature young Black women as the leads in a narrative that does not focus on race as a major plot point or source of character development.”
About Lucha Comics:
In 2014, Lucha Comics was founded to bring new stories to the market,
and launched with digital exclusives from South Korea’s Blue Wolf. Since
then, our catalogue has grown to include titles such as The Adventures
of Super Yeiya & Tornado Man, Azteq vs. Prowler, Macbeth: The Red
King, Thrill Rider, and Indios de Corazon. All of our titles are labours
of love, created by true comic book fans.
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