SAN DIEGO, CA (March 18, 2019) — Writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Marley Zarcone invite you to the ultimate rager at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Marilyn Manor, a four-issue creator-owned miniseries from IDW Publishing, intended for mature readers!
When the White House goes dark for 17 days in August 1981, the president’s spoiled daughter and her best friend Abe – who claims to be possessed by the spirit of Abe Lincoln – throw the party of the decade, unearthing dead historical figures and government secrets that are better off buried. Sex, drugs, séances, and secret passageways lead to time-bending mystical romps where past and present collide.
“We’ve been trying to capture the feel, the excitement, the energy of the rise of the New Romantics, of the decade that embraced excess and excitement in hugely over-the-top ways, and filled it with chaos and insanity. This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever written in the best way possible, like an apocalypse directed by John Hughes,” says co-creator/writer Magdalene Visaggio.
Uniting the red-hot Eisner-nominated talents of Visaggio (Kim & Kim) and Zarcone (Shade, the Changing Girl) for the first time, Marilyn Manor explores identity, classism, appropriation, and friendship, set just in time for the greatest pop cultural marriage to date: the debut of MTV.
“There isn’t an artist alive who could perfectly capture the style and verve of the early ’80s like Marley Zarcone,” says editor Shelly Bond. “Coupled with Irma Kniivila’s vibrant palette, Marilyn Manoris for readers who like a bit of pop art and revisionist history with their coming-of-age satire.”
For information on how to secure copies of Marilyn Manor beginning with its launch issue in June, please contact your local comic shop or visit www.comicshoplocator.com to find a store near you.
Creator Bios
Magdalene Vissagio is the Eisner and GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer behind Kim & Kim and Eternity Girl. She’s written comic books for most major publishers including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Oni.
Marley Zarcone is the artist on the critically-acclaimed series Sh
On March 22nd, 2019 (A Friday) my “home” wrestling company Brii Combination Wrestling will be celebrating their third anniversary in a show called 3 The Hard Way. The card lined up for this is absolutely amazing. Taking place a week before the huge Mania week in NYC where many companies from all over the US and even Japan will be putting on their biggest show BCW has been hard working to make sure this show will be as much a Brii-Mania (as it were). I am very proud of the work I’ve done at BCW over the last year in promoting before and after, running production at the shows and helping to make the entire show flows alongside our great staff; and I look forward to doing so again on this date.
At our last show Riley Shepard was robbed of her chance to compete in the Queen of the North tournament and become the first BCW woman’s champion. Now she gets her chance to possibly rectify that in a #1 contender’s match against the woman Faye Jackson defeated to win that title in Tasha Steelz. These two ladies both have tons to fight for and will leave nothing in the ring.
Making their return to BCW are long time favorites Lance Lude, Rob Killjoy with their guidance, Coach Mikey collectively The Ugly Ducklings. Every appearance they have made in BCW has made them feel like true roster and family and it is really exciting to have them be back for our third anniversary. They won’t have an easy time of things though as they face rising stars and members of AR Foxx’s The Skulk, Leon Grey and Adrian Alanis. Every match on this show has the possibility of show stealer and this is no different.
Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. People will be smashed, crashed, and destroyed in this brutal contest with no rules and plenty weapons. Deady Sayians scream of “Change Through Violence” and we shall see it cause LAW won’t go down without a fight.
On top of all this great action there will also the regular love and camaraderie of an amazing audience but also an Anniversary wouldn’t be one without a party, so we shall be having one. An Afterparty that is, a Karaoke party hosted by the house podcast of Brii Combination, A Shot of Wrestling located just around the corner from the venue.
Enslaved for generations, Canto’s people once had hearts. Now they have clocks. When slavers damage a little tin girl’s clock beyond repair, Canto must brave the darkest corners of his hostile world to bring back her heart. Can he overcome the dangers that await to save the one he loves?
Esoteric, strange, inconceivable, surreal and undoubtedly awkward yet lovable. All ways someone could describe the talents of both the Marx Brothers and Salvador Dali. Who could imagine that the mime of the family Harpo and the man who painted The Persistence of Memory would become close friends; or that friendship would lead to a movie script that would never come to see the light of action and motion?
