Exclusive: Romero Meets Miyazaki in Glenn Fabry and Steve Niles' 'Lot 13'
There's little doubt in my my mind that if we had more Glenn Fabry comic art, the world would be a much better place. Best known for his cover work on titles like Preacher and his interior art in books like Slaine, Neverwhere and Endless Nights, Fabry (pictured above) is one of those rare illustrators who know exactly the right amount of cartoony surrealism to add to their lushly realistic pencils and paints. Fortunately for us horror fans, Fabry is applying his skills once more to our favorite genre. He's currently working on Lot 13, a new book written by Steve Niles to be published by WildStorm. And as Fabry told me at this weekend's Wizard World in Anaheim (a rare Stateside appearance for the British artist), it's exactly the kind of batshit craziness his fans are sure to love. Read what Fabry had to say about Lot 13 after the jump.
"It's the story of this poor unfortunate family who are having difficultly while moving house," said Fabry, "and they've decided they're going to stop off at this motel in America. This motel thing kind of mysteriously appears. They're tired, and they're gonna stay the evening in this motel. But it's haunted, and there are zombies and monsters -- and zombie horses. I'm trying to find a way to get a zombie duck in there... We've got an enormous giant, who's about four-hundred-feet tall. Little red people fall out of his chest into his crotch and land on the floor and explode. I'm basically trying for a combination of George A. Romero kind of horror and Spirited Away by Miyazaki, a germ of that kind of stuff. It's actually the best work I've done for some years. I'm enjoying the project, and it's looking really nice as far as I'm concerned. And it should be available in a couple of months, I think, the first issue. It's gonna be six issues, and I've got my fingers crossed that it will sell well enough to be collected in a graphic novel. Then I can make a fortune and go away and rule the world from a private island."
Fabry added that there's only one problem with his plan.
"I need a moat and I need piranha."
