My Living Dead Girl School Days!

Hey There My Living Dead Girl Fans.! I've been working REALLY hard on upcoming episode 5: 3RD PERIOD OF THE DAMNED and episode 6: AFTER SCHOOL BLOODBATH. I thought I'd share with you some things that are coming up. Episodes 5 and 6 deal with Courtney at her school, called RESURRECTION ACADEMY so I've been designing LOTS of school kids, classrooms and playgrounds. A very large task to draw 20 to 30 Boys and Girls and make them all different from each other. I'm cheating on a few. Changing heads and bodies. Also backgrounds are killing me, but I won't have to draw them again in the future when we come back to a school story line. Anyway enjoy and keep writing me with remarks about the strip. Love it or hate it, I will try to answer all your questions as they come. Best & GAK!

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Buy some stuff from the My Living Dead Girl Shop OR I give BUB the Zombie your home phone number! Nobody likes a telemarketer calling them at an Ungodlily hour.

Especially a Zombie Telemarketer! They're relentless! I'm going to give BUB your home phone number, if you don't buy some stuff right now from the My Living Dead Girl Shop!

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You: "I really don't want to change my phone service to Verizon."


Zombie Telemarketer: "Guck! Rak! Gk! gurgle...gurgle guck!"


You: "I'm not interested in saving 10% on all foreign calls."


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You: "No thank you. Goodbye." ( CLICK! )





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You: "Hello?"


Zombie Telemarketer: "Gak! gurgle...gurgle...feck Raz Guk!"


You: "I told you I'm NOT interested! Please leave me alone!" ( SLAM! )




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You: "YES?"


Zombie Telemarketer: "Gak! gurgle...gurgle...feck Raz Guk!"


You: "Oh My GOD! Help Me!"




Head over to the My Living Dead Girl Shop Now or old BUB starts dialing!

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Happy Gak-Day!

I did this special Happy Birthday E-card for people on my friends list on My Space.com. If your on My Space and want one sent to you, Just send me a friends request on My Space and you can get a birthday greeting from Courtney the My Living Dead Girl herself.


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The Amazing Screw-On Head is Here!

I just saw The Amazing Screw-On Head at the Sci-fi channels website. It's based on HELLBOY creator Mike Mignola's comic The Amazing Screw-on Head. Paul Giamatti is the voice of our hero "Screw-on Head" and Davd Hyde Pierce is the voice of the villainous "Emperor Zombie". Great stuff. It looks like Mignola's work come to life. Please check it out. Take the survey. GAK!

Autograph from a Real Living Dead Girl!

Hey GAK! Fans,

I won a cool autographed photo of The Ultimate Living Dead Girl herself, Kyra Schon on Ebay this week! She played Karen Cooper in Night of the Living Dead. She's the little girl who is bitten by a zombie, dies, raises again as an undead and attacks her mother with a garden trowel in the cellar. The most famous scene in the movie! I found her website The Ghoul Next Door and thought you might enjoy. Now I have to get a frame for this baby and put it up.

GAK!

A Background from "My Living Dead Girl"

Here's a BG that I did for an upcoming episode of My Living Dead Girl called "3rd Period of the Damned". The episode takes place at Courtney's private school. I found a picture online of Harvard university and decided to use it a reference for the front of Resurrection Academy.
I think it works for what I needed.

GAK!

Original Walking Dead Pages

Wanted to share this with you. I picked up some sweet art from The Walking Dead by Charlie Adlard on SPLASH PAGE ART. He's been working on The Walking Dead From issues #8 to #28. It's beautiful black & white work. Charlie has a really loose brush style and a great page design layout. Enjoy. GAK!

Help! They're coming to get GAK merchandise!

Look out! The undead are heading for the My Living Dead Girl Shop! They're going to grab all the T-shirts, Hats, Mugs, Mouse pads, Tote bags, Greeting cards, Stickers, Wall Clocks, Pins and even the Thongs! Stop them, before they ransack the store! Head over now to the My Living Dead Girl Shop before they do! Buy as much as you can and run for safety! They're almost here! Get going!

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My top 10 favorite zombie movies of all time! Part: 2

Here's my top 5 zombie films of all time.


#5 - RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)

Originally intended as a sequel to Night of the Living Dead Director Dan O'Bannon decided not to and do a new take on the undead. O'Bannon who was the writer for the film ALIEN creates a great horror/comedy story about a guy named Freddy on his first day at work in an army surplus store. He unwittingly releases a gas from an old secret U.S military canister. Causing the dead to raise and it also has a strange side effect on poor Freddy and his co worker. This film is a lot of fun. A great story about an accident that goes from bad, to worst, to horrible. You'll laugh out loud. Great to watch with friends late at night.

Best Line:

"Send more cops."



#4 - DAY OF THE DEAD (1985)

This is the 3rd film in the George A. Romero Dead trilogy. At first it just seems like rehashed stuff from the last film. People hiding in a military base instead of the mall, but the story takes on a new dimension when Dr. M. Logan ( Played wonderfully by Richard Liberty ) an insane Doctor who experiments on the dead. He wants to see if they can communicate and learn, even be tamed. Great performance by Sherman Howard plays Bud. A zombie who is part of Dr. Logan's experiments. He's one of the best characters in all of zombie film history. Sure you've got "Big Daddy" from LAND OF THE DEAD, but BUD was here first. A special nod to Tom Savini for some of the goriest effects make up ever on film. GAK!

Best Line:

"I hope you choke on them!"



#3 - DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)

George A. Romero's 1978 Classic! Survivors trapped in a shopping mall as the zombie hordes mass outside, wanting to feed on the living inside and maybe do a little shopping. Great commentary by Romero on the consumers in us all. Great performances by Gaylen Ross, David Emge, Ken Foree and Scott H. Reinger. With a special cameo by the great Tom Savini as a leader of a biker gang. The Sound track by Gonk is brilliant.

Best Line:

"The people it kills, get up and kill!"



#2 - SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004)

One of the best films of 2004. A romantic comedy with zombies. The story about a guy named Shaun (Simon Pegg) who trying to fix his relationship with his girlfriend and deal with his slob of a friend (Nick Frost) as the world being is taking over by zombies. Funny and original. Horror and comedy are a great mix. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright wrote a really tight script. George A. Romeros loved the film so much he gave Simon and Edgar comeo's in LAND OF THE DEAD.

Best Line:

"You've got red on you."



#1 - NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)

The Best for last. George A. Romero's Masterpiece. It was ground breaking in story, shooting and budget. Romero was inspired by Richard Matheson's book "I Am Legend" But instead of one person alone fighting against vampires, he made it a group fighting the undead. Tension raises as they begin fighting each other. A fantastic look at social breakdown under pressure. Watch it late at night by yourself, it will scare the hell out of you. GAK!

Best Line:

"They're coming to get you Barbara."


Well, there they are. My top 10 favorites zombie films. What are yours? Post them.

GAK!

YOUR CAREER IN ANIMATION is HERE!

GAK there,

My very good friend David B Levy has a new book out.
Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive It's a great guide on how to get into animation and staying alive in a very competitive business. I was interviewed for the book a few month's ago and was amazed by the people Dave got to interview. If you really want to know the inner workings of the animation industry, pick this book up now at:
Amazon.com
Only $12.97

GAK!

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in 30 seconds!

GAK there,

I found this Flash cartoon online today. Very, very funny. Check it out.



NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Now in.... BUN-O-VISION!

Enjoy!

GAK!

My top 10 favorite Zombie movies of all time! Part: 1

Here's my top 10 favorite zombie films of all time. This is going to take some time, so lets do 10 through 6 first.


#10 - DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004)

Look out! Running Zombies! Hate them or love them, this was the ONLY thing that made this film any fun to watch. Sarah Polley is good. Ving Rhames makes his dialogue work. The beginning starts out great with Polley's husband being attacked by a savage zombie girl. He dies and comes back in a matter of minutes and attacks Polley who runs for her life. Classic. The opening music by Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around" is perfect. The images during the titles of the world collapsing is scary stuff. Then they get to the mall and everything goes down hill. The only time it gets interesting is the zombie baby scene. The ended falls flat to. It seems they really didn't have an ending ready when they were filming. If you watch the end credits you see what happens to the group that escaped, but I think it's a cop out. You show us what happens during the end credits? Not Cool! People would sit for another 10 minutes to see what happens. ONE great thing about this film is that it made people interested in zombies again. Paving the way for George Romero to make LAND OF THE DEAD.

Best Line:

"So what's the bad news?"


#9 - RESIDENT EVIL (2002)

Ok, I know it's a video game movie, but it's a fun video game movie. Paul W.S Anderson is not a great director, but he does keep the film close to the original material. An accident in a secret underground complex, zombies, mutants, zombie dogs, a master computer gone nuts and of course....Milla Jovovich running around shooting stuff is fun. Michelle Rodriguez plays her BEST Michelle Rodriguez ever! Great if you've never seen it. Fun if it's been awhile.

Best Line:

"You're all going to die down here."


#8 - 28 DAYS LATER (2003)

They're not really zombies, but they're REALLY F*cking scary! Danny Boyle takes the zombie concept and puts it into a whole new world. A virus called RAGE is released and everyone who comes in contact with the infected's blood or is bitten becomes a crazed freak in seconds. Cillian Murphy is great as the man who wakes up from a coma to find the world, he knew is gone. Fun chase scenes through the empty streets of London. The ending is a little strange with Murphy becoming a Super commando taking out a group of soldiers. But it's a intensely scary flick that keeps you on your toes.

Best Line:

"Hello?"


#7 - LAND OF THE DEAD (2005)

The Master is back! George A. Romero returns with a bang! Out of all the DEAD films, this sadly is my lest favorite. I guess I wanted to see more of the class separation from the people living on the street and the people living in "Fiddler's Green. But, you get great Romero dialogue and a battle truck called "Dead Reckoning" so you can't go wrong. John Leguizamo is fantastic. Will there be sequel? Don't really know, but Romero said he wouldn't want to do it. Maybe the Dead will speak in the next film? The great master of make up Tom Savini makes a cameo as a zombie biker from Dawn of the Dead. GAK!

Best Line:

"Zombies, they creep me out."


#6 - NIGHT OF THE LIVING (1990)

A really great remake of the original film by George A. Romero. This ones directed by Tom Savini the master make-up artist for the original Dead films. This is a very faithful to the original story. "Who cares." You say,"I'll watch the original." You need to see this versions ending, which is completely new and takes on a stronger message in the end. Race and the dead come together. Patrica Tallman is great as a "fighting back" Barbara. Tony Todd is powerful as Ben.

Best Line:
"They're us. We're them and they're us."

Next week the top 5.

See you,

GAK!

Courtney Davers in the Rotten flesh!

GAK there folks,

Here's Courtney's model sheet. Enjoy!



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THE WALKING DEAD

GAK there folks,

Some of you know that I'm a really Big Comic Geek. I've been in love with these monthly periodicals, since I was a small geek. Spiderman, Batman and Superman were and still are some of my favorites. But of late, my taste has shifted to other things. For the last year and a half, I've have been a fan of one particular book, The Walking Dead . It is the creation of Robert Kirkman, writer of Marvel Team-up, Invincible and Battle Poe. The premise is simple. An ongoing black and white series, about a small group of survivors in a world that is overrun with the undead. Kirkman asked the question. What happen to the living people at the end of a zombie movie? Where did they go? Is it safe now? Did they meet other survivors?

A comicbook format is perfect to answer these questions. Kirkman's characters are fantastic. They are flesh and blood people you care about. They're not just fodder for the zombie hordes to pick off one by one, but characters who struggle with themselves, the people around them and of course the undead.

Here's the Publishers Weekly Review For THE WALKING DEAD:

Taking a well-worn genre—flesh-eating zombies overrun the world and the unlucky surviving humans must deal with the gruesome aftermath—and approaching it from a purely character-driven point of view propels this series into the spotlight from out of nowhere. This collection of the first six issues of the ongoing series opens with police officer Rick Grimes awakening from a gunshot-induced coma. From here, he's immediately dragged into a world where dangerous revenants are shambling amok without any sort of an explanation. From the moment Grimes comes to, it's a harrowing battle to avoid hordes of decomposing zombies and a hope-against-all-odds search for his missing family. Grimes makes his way to Atlanta, the nearest large city where there may be other living people, and events take several unexpected turns upon his arrival, as he meets up with a rural encampment of survivors. Of course, as in recent hit movies 28 Days Later... and Dawn of the Dead, the last humans may turn out to be as much a danger as the zombies. Forceful scripting that gives the book a strong grounding in reality, crisp b&w artwork, a shocking final sequence and brisk, gory proceedings elevate this book from the trash heap of pedestrian horror comics.

The art is amazing! Beautiful Black & White work by Tony Moore who worked on the book for the first story arc. Issues #1 through #6. Then Charlie Adlard came in at issue #7 and has been on the book ever since.

Well, enough of my yaking. Give the book a chance. Check out The Walking Dead. You'll love it. If not let me know why.

Later,

GAK!

Why are these Zombies smiling?

Because they went to the My Living Dead Girl Shop and bought themselves My Living Dead Girl exclusive merchandise. Now they're cool looking Zombies! Don't let the undead make you look un-cool! Head over to the My Living Dead Girl Shop pick up your My Living Dead Girl merchandise. Get T-shirts, Hats, Mugs, Wall Clocks, Pins and Even Thongs!

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Welcome to GAK NEWS! The My Living Dead Girl Blog!

Hey Everybody! Welcome to GAK NEWS! This blog is for people interested in the making of my web comic "My Living Dead Girl". You'll find out how I put a strip together and see artwork that you wouldn't see on the main site. It's going to be a "Behind-the-scenes" kind of blog. I've also started working on a short "My Living Dead Girl" animated film, called "Eulogy for a Salesman". You'll get updates, as the production moves forward. Also, I'll be writing about films, comics, art and television shows, as time go's on.

Here's some stuff, you might like. A character model sheet for Courtney's mother "Carol Davers"



Also, a background of Courtney's bedroom. Both where designed in Photoshop CS.



Till next time,

GAK!