
I've been thinking about zombies lately. Maybe it was Halloween, or the election, or maybe it was because I've been staring at my
dios de muertos shadow boxes too long, or maybe it's because I've been listening to American Music Club's "I've Been a Mess" over and over. (Central image--Lazarus; insidious earworm lyric--"It's {her beauty} going to turn me into another great American zombie/so hungry, so hungry for you/I've been a mess since you've been gone.") Whatever the reason, I had to find out more about these creatures, so I turned to my friend Brendan Hay for answers. In addition to knowing more than one man should about zombie films, Brendan Hay was a headline producer for
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and a contributing writer for
America: The Book. More recently, he’s written for
The Simpsons, Frank TV, and
The Mighty B! A lifelong comic book fan, Brendan also wrote and created the mini-series
Scream Queen for BOOM! Studios and is writing BOOM!’s newest series,
Eureka, as well as an original graphic novel for Oni Press, due out in 2010. He also co-wrote the book
Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? Brendan resides in Los Angeles with his wife, playwright and freelance writer Jennifer Chen, and their three-legged cat, Bentley.
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