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Really, there’s just no stopping the undead these days, with the zombie plague continuing to spread everywhere from terrifying movies like “28 Days Later” or the hilarious “Shaun of the Dead” to numerous comics including the runaway Robert Kirkman hits “Walking Dead” and “Marvel Zomies.”

You can add another graphic novel to the list. “Zombies Calling” is a 104-page graphic novel and the first to be released by newcomer Faith Erin Hicks through SLG Publishing. The story follows three university students who’re trapped in their school due to an invasion of the undead and have to fight their way out using only their knowledge of zombie films. As the story is set in Canada, there are no guns available with which to fight the zombies. Additionally, the heroes aren’t athletic types, meaning they’ve no potentially lethal cricket bats lying around. Instead, the students are forced to use kitchen utensils like sporks, which, Hicks told CBR News, can be deadly in the right hands.

Though a new face in the printed comics world, the Nova Scotia-based Faith Hicks works in a Canadian animation studio and has created more than 900 pages of Webcomics, one of which, “Ice,” was nominated for a Joe Shuster Award.

“Zombies Calling” is a book filled with respect for zombies, but at the same time skewers the genre in a very novel way. With the graphic novel shipping to comics stores this week, CBR News caught up with Hicks to learn more about the inspiration for “Zombies Calling” as well as her Webcomics background.


Source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/