Zoe Thorogood Sinks Her Teeth Into a Grocery Store Vampire With Image's Vampire on Aisle 6

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth creator Zoe Thorogood is heading back to Image Comics with a new three-issue miniseries, teaming with debut collaborator Joe Whiteford on Vampire on Aisle 6, set to arrive December 23. The premise drops readers into the fluorescent-lit aisles of a mascot-themed supermarket, where a man named Luka insists he's a vampire, has just committed his first kill, and has roughly ten hours before sunrise closes in. A bite from a mysterious stranger sends his life into freefall - bloodlust, a reflection that no longer matches him, and a growing aversion to daylight all included.

Thorogood has described the book as a story about traumatic change and the isolation that follows, and the horror-comedy premise gets an unusual multimedia twist: the comic releases alongside an eight-song punk rock album from Whiteford's band Harley Poe, meant to give readers another lens into the story and its characters. Whiteford, making his comics debut here, called the project a bloody, heart felt, anti-corporate, sexy comic.

It's a strange, promising combination for a creator who's built a reputation on turning personal, uncomfortable material into some of the most acclaimed cartooning in the industry - and pairing a miniseries with a companion record is the kind of swing that only really works at a publisher built for creator-owned experiments.

Source: The Beat