Nomination for horror comic ‘Eat the Rich’

Comics
Written By Chris Well

When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu?

“This has been years in the making,” says Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Gailey, “and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with the world.”

The horror comic book mini-series Eat the Rich has been nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards in the category of Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel. When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu? Eat the Rich examines the unspeakable horrors lying in wait behind the idyllic lives of the one percent.

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About Eat the Rich: “It’s a feverish love letter to the soapy primetime dramas I hold dear,” says author Sarah Gailey. “This has been years in the making, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with the world. Welcome to Crestfall Bluffs, friends. I hope you’re hungry.”

Eat the Rich
By Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, Roman Titov, and Cardinal Rae
BOOM! Studios
Categories: Mystery Graphic Novels, Horror Graphic Novels

Find Eat the Rich on Amazon

WELCOME TO CRESTFALL BLUFFS! With law school and her whole life ahead of her, Joey plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor at his seemingly perfect family home. But beneath all the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot… something all the locals live in quiet fear of.

As summer lingers, Joey uncovers the macabre history of Crestfall Bluffs, and the ruthlessness and secrecy lying in wait behind the idyllic lives of the one percent. Who can Joey save? Who wants to be saved? And can she even survive to tell the tale?

The bold, horrifying psychological thriller from Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Gailey (The Echo Wife, Magic For Liars) and artist Pius Bak (Firefly, The Magicians) with colorist Roman Titov and letterer Cardinal Rae. Collects Eat the Rich #1-5.

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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