Awakening

Awakening is my first book, a zombie noir with an existential horror bent. It, as with most of my work to date, is illustrated by my good pal and comic nerd brother, Alex Eckman-Lawn. Originally planned as a 10-issue series, it’s now being released as two hardcover volumes, each with five ’serialized’ chapters and a ton of supplemental material. The first volume was released in July of 2009:

“The once peaceful city of Park Falls has been tainted by a series of gruesome murders and missing persons. Cynthia Ford, well known as the town crazy, comes forward to speak with retired police detective Derrick Peters one January afternoon. She claims to have information about the murders, but does she hold the key to unlocking the mystery or has she truly gone insane?

To Derrick’s disbelief she utters one word:

Zombies.

Unable to ignore Cynthia’s information, though not sharing her beliefs, Derrick and others in the city explore the mystery as weeks turn to months and the death toll rises. Could Cynthia have been right? Follow the first half of Park Falls’ year-long struggle for answers here…”



Check out the full first chapter by clicking the image and when you’re done, be sure to check out the trailer for the rest of the volume in the Trailers section of the site. If you can’t live without it, and who could, you can pick the book up at your local book store, comic shop, or on Amazon.com.







Awakening Volume Two is due out in the summer of 2010. For those of you who’ve  already checked out the first volume there’s something special waiting behind the cover to chapter six… Go on, click on it, but SPOILER WARNING in effect for folks unfamiliar with the series.







And for those of you who dig the “making of” features on your new-fangled digital video discs, click the image to the left to check out some behind the scenes stuff that went into the making of Awakening. More to be added soon.