Zombie CSU

by Jonathan Maberry

  ROB McCALLUM is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he started drawing comics while still a student. He’s worked for Dark Horse, DC Comics, 2000ad in the United Kingdom, and Marvel Comics (where he worked for Stan Lee on his unpublished Excelsior line). Having made his own short films, Rob moved into film storyboards and concept art, working with directors such as George Romero, Richard Donner, Barry Levinson, Danny Boyle, and John Singleton on the films Land of the Dead, Resident Evil Apocalypse, 16 Blocks, Four Brothers, Hairspray, and many others. Rob can be contacted through his website: www.mecallumart.com.

  ZACH McCAIN is an internationally published artist whose work ranges from designing book covers, illustrations for books and magazines, to artwork for trading cards and games. He has illustrated the works of such authors as Paul Finch, Steve Vernon, Charles M. Grant, William F. Nolan, and many more. His clients include Cemetery Dance Publications, Gray Friar Press, Hero Games, and Z-Man Games. Artwork and current projects can be viewed at his official website: www.zachmccain.com.

  MARK MCLAUGHLIN is an artist and widely published writer. His books of short stories include Pickman’s Motel, Slime After Slime, and Motivational Shrieker (he also did the cover art for the last two). He is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of the Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection, The Gossamer Eye. Also, he has written a novel, Monster Behind the Wheel, with collaborator Michael McCarty. Visit him online at www.myspace.com/monsterbook.

  KEN MEYER, JR. is an illustrator by trade and has been working at it for close to twenty years, working in comics, games (paper and online), educational media, and more. He is back in school pursuing his M.F.A. He puts together the Tori Amos RAINN benefit calendar each year (www.rainn.org), plays tennis, drinks Dr Pepper, plays with his daughters, and idolizes Stephen Colbert. Okay, maybe that’s too strong…but he likes him a whole lot. See his work at www.kenmeyerjr.com/port.

  PETER MIHAICHUK is an art director, photographer, artist, and family man who found his calling in dark art at an early age, when he was brought before a child psychologist to discuss a disturbing piece that consisted of an all-consuming tornado wreaking havoc with human and animal captives. For over ten years, he has worked as a concept artist, illustrator, and art director. Peter’s work has been featured in such magazines and publications as EXPOSÉ 5, ImagineFX, Apex, Doorways, Post Mortem, Cthulhu Sex, and Dark Discoveries, among others. Peter created www.aimfortheheadshot.com in 2007, giving people access to a unique portrait service. Peter’s work can be seen at www.mihaichuk.com and www.aimfortheheadshot.com.

  BRIAN ORLOWSKI was born at the lousy end of the 1960s. He grew up happy but was always obsessed with the darker aspect of life. His true fear came when he saw Night of the Living Dead. Zombies became his dread of choice, permeating his writing and artwork. In college, Brian majored in fine arts and creative writing. He later graduated from the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning & Graphic Arts. He currently has a novel under consideration and a comic strip vying for syndication. He can be seen every month in several magazines: Ideas, Goals and Dreams; Doorways; Girls & Corpses, and others. Website: www.drawnofthedead.com. Contact him at brianjorlowski@gmail.com.

  CHRISTOPHER PALMERINI, professional musician and artist, has been entertaining audiences for the past three decades and has performed in every major club in the tristate area. He is an in-demand studio musician who has opened for national acts and backed up many famous performers such as Ray Manzarek, Pete Best, Mick Taylor, Denny Laine, Jane Weidlin, Buckethead, Tiffany, and Billy Mumy. He’s written and cowritten music for half a dozen horror movies with his band The Dead Elvi. He also appears on Rob Zombie’s Halloween Hootenanny CD. You can see clips of him performing at www.deadelvi.com and www.thehoundsmusic.com.

  ROBERT PAPP has illustrated everything from King Kong to the American Girl of the Year, to P is for Princess. His picture books such as The Scarlet Stockings Spy and M Is for Meow do not have zombies in them, but they have won awards nationwide. Robert lives with his artist wife, Lisa, and their orange cat in historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania. You can see more of his art at www.robertpapp.com and feel free to contact him if you’d like yourself “zombified.”

  JACOB PARMENTIER was raised by two loving parents in Middletown, Connecticut, and at a very young age Jacob became interested in horror movies. Quite often he would create drawings of the movies he had loved so much. Nowadays Jacob still resides in Connecticut, except now with his lovely girlfriend. You can usually find Jacob’s artwork in the pages of Black Ink Horror Magazine and other independent publications that show a strong interest in the horror genre. He can be contacted through his websites, beardomcweirdo.tripod.com, www.myspace.com/beardomcweirdo, and www.beardomcweirdo.deviantart.com; or by e-mail at beardomcweirdo@hotmail.com.

  GRAHAM PRATT is a freelance artist specializing in T-shirt and album cover design and has recently been doodling for an up-and-coming band from Manchester, England—The Freezing Fog. He tends to favor blood and guts instead of paint, as this usually gives more depth to the piece being created. He also uses technology to further enhance and mutate the raw materials into splatter-filled chunks of visual wonderment. Website: www.myspace.com/zombie_mastermind. Contact him at zombie@shoppingmall.freeserve.co.uk.

  REDD HOTT ARTWORK is comprised of two artists, Redd and Lisa. Both are award-winning artists who specialize in Kustom Kulture. Their love for all things morbid and vintage is reflected in their art. From capturing the resurrection of a timeworn vehicle that was left to rot and the undead pin-up girl who drives it, to an undead cruise at a local cemetery diner, Redd and Lisa inject a uniquely fun style into their art. Artwork and information on these two artists can be found at www.reddhottartwork.com. Contact them at: ReddHottArtwork@comcast.net.

  NELSON ROBLES is a writer, illustrator, thinker, father, husband, and one of the undead. Visit him on MySpace at www.Myspace.com/undeadartist.

  ELIZABETH LOPEZ ROMERO studies audiovisual arts in Mexico at the University of Guadalajara, where she also resides. After school she intends to become an active part of the new Mexican cinema scene, with a goal of working in the related fields of make-up effects and special effects. Contact her at child_ofthe_night@hotmail.com.

  SETH ROSE is a digital artist from Canada whose work encompasses a dark surrealistic style deeply inspired by music, horror movies, fetishism and eroticism, comics, and society itself. His work has been seen round the world via the Internet and other sources. Seth has worked with such bands as Front Line Assembly, Shaolin Temple of Boom, and Doomsday Refreshment Committee as well as many more. His work can be seen at syntheticlamb.deviantart.com as well as on MySpace at www.myspace.com/syntheticlamb.

  ROB SACCHETTO was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, where he still resides to this day. He has spent some twenty years dedicated to the visual arts and has worked in a variety of mediums, including commissioned work, illustrated film, comic book illustration, and concept design. With many creative projects on the go, Rob is always at his art table. He is currently working on two separate comic books, which he will be self-publishing. His most recent project, www.zombieportraits.com, however, is by far his favorite. For more information or to contact him directly, visit the website, or call 705-675-3528.

  DOUG SCHOONER resides in Boulder, Colorado, working on music, literature, and art and says that his first paintings can be most enjoyed in very specific lighting environments. He attended Notre Dame College in Manchester, New Hampshire, as a commercial art major. He plays guitar, has recorded music, done interviews for local television shows, performed festivals, opened for national acts, published poetry, performed computer animation voiceovers, and is working on a novel. In 2005, Doug’s Rock N Roll Art Gallery began. Experience DR RAGS at www.myspace.com/drrags. Contact him at denverdrgn@gmail.com.

  JEREMY SIMMONS has been working in RPG design and cartography for over six years, and a professional designer for twice that. Since working in this industry is more of a labor of love
than anything else, working for RPG Objects on projects like Blood and Brains is a perfect example of how much fun one can have doing so. Jeremy is dedicated to creating the best work he can on every piece, he is easy to work with, and very professional. And in this case, he is glad to have the chance to prepare for the zombie apocalypse.

  HAROLD VINCENT was born in Granite City, Illinois, and discovered early in his life that he was fascinated by the world of horror movies. The youngest of five children, he relied on his imagination to keep him company. Combining his love for monsters and fantasy art, Harold incorporates raw emotion and creativity to bring to life a new strain of characters. He is now working on a personal sci-fi/horror project, which he hopes will be published soon. Harold lives in Huber Heights, Ohio, with his wife Shelby and their three children. Visit him at www.myspace.com/faith_and_rage. Contact him at necropolis126@yahoo.com.

  CHAD MICHAEL WARD, director, photographer, and artist, has spent the last decade entertaining audiences with his dark, and oft times erotic, horror art. His work has been featured in dozens of publications around the world including NME, Skin Two, Aphrodesia, Spectrum, Gothic Beauty, Tattoo Savage, Carpe Noctem, Club International, Gallery, Pit, Dark Realms, and The Third Alternative and is frequently commissioned by musicians such as Marilyn Manson, The Cruxshadows, Fear Factory, Collide, The Blank Theory, Soilwork, Pissing Razors, Naglfar, and Darkane. His work can be found at www.digitalapocalypse.com.

  JOHN C. WORSLEY was born in 1978 in Sacramento, California, but has spent the last twenty-two years in comically idyllic Portland, Oregon. Since 2003 John has been self-employed as a minimum-time programmer/over-time illustrator, self-publishing comics such as the science fiction neomythological Painkillers, and the contemporary horror comic Dead Valentines. He has also contributed illustrations to games such as Iron Realms’ Achaea, Pinnacle’s Deadlands: Reloaded, and Wizkids’ Pirates of the Spanish Main. Staying generally active in the miniature comics mecca that is the Portland comics scene, he is also the maintainer of Shannon Wheeler’s Too Much Coffee Man website and the Stumptown Comics Fest. Website: www.openvein.com. Contact him at jcworsley@gmail.com.

  APPENDIX C

  Answers to Gregg Winkler’s Zombie Quiz

  PART 1

  A Crimson Head

  David J. Schow’s “Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy”

  Draugr

  An orb above the earth’s South Pole made up of worms

  The Rising by Brian Keene

  PART 2

  “Re: Your Brains”

  Tom Savini—he played a zombie named Blades (or Machete Zombie) in both Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead.

  “Trojan, Ramses, Magnum, Sheik!”

  Stacy

  Captain America

  PART 3

  The conflicts in Northern Ireland known as “The Troubles.”

  King of the Zombies

  Braindead

  C.

  C.

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  Art of the Dead—Lori Ann McAdam

  Zombie Geisha

  “Night of the Living Dead is definitely the foundation of zombie pop culture. My grandmother even remembers being scared out of her wits, how could you not love that thought?”

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  About the Author

  JONATHAN MABERRY is the multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author of the Pine Deep Trilogy (Ghost Road Blues, Dead Man’s Song, and Bad Moon Rising), Vampire Universe, and The Cryptopedia. He is a motivational speaker, writing teacher, and lecturer. Jonathan is cofounder of the Writers Corner USA, a writers education center in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; a speaker for the National Writers Union; and a writing mentor for the Mystery Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Sara, and son, Sam. Visit Jonathan on the web at www.jonathanmaberry.com and www.myspace.com/jonathan_maberry; and for more on zombies, go to www.zombiecsu.com.

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  1. John Russo cowrote the screenplay and has been active in zombie pop culture ever since.

  1. Translation courtesy of Dr. Van Nguyen, formerly of Temple University.

  2. The Serpent and the Rainbow, 1985, Simon & Schuster; Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haltian Zombie, 1988, The University of North Carolina Press

  3. Vodoun is the correct name for the religion known popularly as voodoo. Also known as vudu, Vodon, Voudou, Vodu. The word Voodoo is considered offensive to the practitioners of that faith, largely due to the way it has been portrayed by Western culture in film, literature, etc.

  4. Tetrodotoxin (unhydrotetrodotaxin 4-epitetrodotaxin, tetrodonic acid or TTX) is a potent neurotoxin.

  5. World War Z by Max Brooks, published by Crown Books in 2006.

  6. Shape-shifting, or theriomorphy, is a common trait of many folkloric monsters including vampires and werewolves.

  7. There are a few exceptions to this, notably the creatures from the Dan O’Bannon Return of the Living Dead series of films who not only possess the power of speech but are also gourmets rather than gourmands—they only eat brains, eschewing the rest of the body.

  8. Based on a story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier (The Birds and Other Short Stories, 1963).

  9. During the scripting and production phase the movie was known as Night of the Flesh Eaters and Night of Anubis.

  10. Macumba is also the name of a Bantu deity and a Bantu word for musical instrument. When used to refer to vodoun, it is only used by nonpractitioners of that faith, suggesting that Peter is merely quoting his grandfather but not endorsing a point of view.

  11. Published 1983 by Dodd Mead and Company.

  12. Another sure sign of the apocalypse.

  13. For more on the Resident Evil films, see Chapter 11.

  14. Michael Tolkin and Scott Frank contributed to the screenplay for Dawn of the Dead.

  15. The original title, according to Romero’s script, was Dawn of the Living Dead.

  16. His fifth film, Diary of the Dead, does not continue this “future history,” but instead jumps back to tell another story that occurs at the same time as Night of the Living Dead.

  1. Though in Night of the Living Dead the zombies certainly appeared to be frightened of fire; so fear, at least on a very basic level, may be a factor.

  2. The Rising (2004) and City of the Dead (2005), Leisure Books; Dead City (2006) Pinnacle Books; Dying 2 Live, Permuted Press; The Cell, Scribner.

  3. The name of this division may vary from one jurisdiction to another.

  4. If the crime scene is indoors, officers generally leave the AC or heat on, windows open or closed, etc. to preserve the condition of the scene as it was during the incident; lights, however, are turned on, but the condition of the lights are generally noted before changes are made.

  5. In cases of a single-officer car as the first responder, this officer may serve as a point officer, or an officer from the next-in car may take this job.

  6. Adapted from the article “Increasing Crime Scene Integrity by Creating Multiple Security Levels” by Greg Dagnan, and reprinted with the author’s permission from his website. For the complete article, go to www.crimescene-investigator.net/MultilevelContainment.html.

  7. The incident occurred in Leary, Georgia, on the evening of January 6, 1969, and was reported to NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena), a now-defunct civilian organization.

  8. To view the news clip, go to www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/12/fringe
/turkey.monster.