My new books, Black Film: A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies arrives in stores this week. This book has been many years in the making. It is available wherever books are sold, or you can order it HERE. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673613/black-film-by-david-f-walker/
…but there are only 23 days left to back the Kickstarter campaign! We’ve already hit our initial goal, and now we’re working towards stretch goals, so we can still use your support. In addition the 24-page main story featuring art by Marcelo Di Chiara and Pedro Estouco…
…and a mind-melting cover by Joe Jusko…
…as well as a pin-up gallery like this one…
…and there are also vintage advertisements for Jaguar Jackson’s B.A.M.F. Combat Academy!
Please take a moment to check out the Kickstarter campaign by clicking HERE, and please share the page with family and friends. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfwalker/the-monster-of-blackenstyne
Okay, some of you are wondering, “What’s a PIY Fun Pack, and is it really free?!”
Well, a PIY Fun Pack, or a Print-It-Yourself Fun Pack is a collection of digital files that you can download and print yourself. There is a PIY Fun Pack for The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein) that is FREE to all backers of the current Kickstarter campaign. Each PIY Fun Pack comes with the following…TWO Stickers, TWO Mini-prints, and a bonus CIY (Color-It Yourself) Print.
PIY Fun Pack mini prints — print ’em and frame ’em.
CIY (Color-It-Yourself) Print – color is, frame it, give it to your grandparents or someone else you love!As part of every reward tier, backers of the campaign will receive the digital files that they can print themselves. BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! You can share the files with your friends and family members. Or you can print out your own stickers and give them away to people you want to impress. You can makes copies of the CIY print, and give it to all the kids you know so they can color it, because…well…it isn’t just Wu-Tang that’s for the children, The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein) is also for the children! Click HERE to go to the Kickstarter page, back The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein) and get your free PIY Fun Pack. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfwalker/the-monster-of-blackenstyne
The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein) has reached it’s initial goal on Kickstarter! Now it’s time to make our way to the stretch goals, which includes an audio drama version of the comic, read by an “all-star” cast. From the cover by Joe Jusko, to the art by Marcelo Di Chiara, to the colors by Pedro Estouco, this is a comic you will love. And let’s not forget the offensive back-up story, and the bonus pin-up gallery that round out this amazing 40-page comic book one-shot. BUT DON’T WORRY — there’s more of The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein) on the way!!! You heard that right! As we speak, the first in a series of on-going short comics staring The Monster are being drawn. In fact, if we hit the second stretch goal of $20k, I will increase the page count of the comic and include an extra bone-bashing, spine-shattering story featuring The Monster doing what he does best — bashing bones and shattering spines. Please consider backing this project, and sharing it with your friends and family. HERE is a link to the Kickstarter page.
I couldn’t sleep, which isn’t that unusual for me. And my mind was racing with all kinds of creative ideas…also, not that unusual for me. But then the oddest idea came to me at about 2am — I was thinking about the 1973 movie Blackenstein, one of the worst movies ever made, and how I would have done things completely different if I’d made that movie. And in an instant, an image popped in my head of what my version of the monster would look like. I reached for a pen and drew a quick sketch (pictured above). A few minutes after that, the story came to me. Seriously. It popped in my head, I wrote down the basic plot, and vowed to turn my insomnia fueled idea into a comic. That was four years ago. Now there is a comic, it is done, and The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein) is a reality. Explaining this project to potential collaborators was not easy. Most people didn’t get where I was coming from. Likewise, publishers didn’t understand what I was doing, which was creating a dark satire fused with blaxploitation, written in style reminiscent of comics published in the 1970s, while trying to use the medium of comics to say something relevant, but obscuring that relevance under gratuitous violence, overwrought dialog, and pure silliness. I’m proud to say I succeeded. And as someone who is his own harshest critic, this is a project I’m proud of, due in no small part to the artists who brought it to life, Marcelo Di Chiara and Pedro Estouco. He is an unedited/uncorrected glimpse at the first page of the comic…
If you want to see more, please head over to Kickstarter and pledge your support for The Monster of Blackenstyne (not to be confused with Blackenstein). Here’s the link…https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfwalker/the-monster-of-blackenstyne