Digital Comic: La Belle Dame Sans Merci and For the Wolf prepare to drag you to Hell

La Belle Dame Sans Merci and For the Wolf prepare to drag you to Hell

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Chapter Two of English Gothic horror comic-book series, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (LBDSM), created by P M Buchan (BLACKOUT) and Karen Yumi Lusted (Tommi C. and the Cat Burglar) is now on sale, in print and digital versions, athttp://pmbuchan.bigcartel.com. Based on the poem of the same name by John Keats, LBDSM is a four-part series that drags The Beautiful Lady out of the forest and screaming into the modern world.

American dark punk-rock band For the Wolf, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, have recorded A Faery’s Song, based on the first issue ofLBDSM, to tie in with the release of issue two. A Faery’s Song is the first song to be released from For the Wolf’s second album, Turn on the Dark, which will be launched by HorrorHound Records in March – www.horrorhoundrecords.com. Watch the music video for A Faery’s Song here and download the MP3 here.

LBDSM 2 cover by Karen Yumi Lusted

Speaking of the origins of A Faery’s Song, Kristy Emory from For the Wolf said: “I grew up in a family made up of pastors and evangelists, but I also grew up a fan of horror.  Staying up late watching Tales from the Crypt with my Mom, the horror that I’ve always gravitated toward has involved that struggle with heaven and hell – the dark and the light.  After reading the first issue ofLBDSM I was hooked, so when we were asked to write a theme I was ecstatic.  We were listening to a lot of Ghost B.C. at the time and knew we wanted a certain feel for the song so it made it really fun to write.  I read LBDSM and the original poem multiple times to prepare, trying to put myself in the shoes of the mysterious ‘Faery’ and explain her side.”

LBDSM: Chapter Two features a bonus short story by P M Buchan, pin-ups by Anna Fitzpatrick (KORE) and Jessica Monster, an additional design by Mike Stock (VS ComicsDead Roots). This follows the first issue, which featured a back-up essay about the feminism of Keats by feminist pop-culture writer Miranda Brennan (Bad Reputation), cover colours by Kate Brown (Young Avengers) and a free soundtrack by composer Brendan Ratliff (Echolevel/Syphus). Chapter One was also made into ashort film by Mitsuko Studios in 2011.

LBDSM Preview 2

For the Wolf’s Turn on the Dark will be available to buy at the HorrorHound Weekend, March 21st to March 23rd 2014, where For the Wolf will join Calabrese, Harley Poe and the Creeping Cruds for an all night concert at Sharonville Convention Centre. P M Buchan collaborated with Harley Poe’s Joe Whiteford in 2012 and 2013 for their obscene horror-comedy anthology comics, BLACKOUT and BLACKOUT II: YOLO.

Speaking of LBDSM, Richard Bruton of Forbidden Planet International said: ““This comics adaptation delivers PM Buchan’s take (on the poem by John Keats), a different, inventive relocation, a dark and bloody affair, and most importantly La Belle Dame here is both seductress and victim, her bloodstained hands a defense against all manner of demons following her. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is an intriguing comic: skillful, nuanced horror, starting as a mundane urban tale, switching to a dramatic betrayal and finally ending on a gut-wrenching twist that disturbs.”

Jim Reader at Exquisite Terror had the following to say about LBDSM: “What Buchan has done here is taken the femme fatale of a 19th-century poet and used her in a contemporary and completely different framework. It’s reminiscent of how John Milius used Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to write Apocalypse Now. In Keats’ original poem the knight is the narrator; in Lusted and Buchan’s adaptation the ‘faerie girl’ will get the lead role as narrator and vengeful antagonist. Like Apocalypse Now, this means Buchan and Lusted will take their source material far beyond a simple adaptation and transform it into something much more personal and complex.”

For more information about La Belle Dame Sans Merci visit http://pmbuchan.com and for more information about For the Wolf visit www.forthewolfok.com.

 

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About the creators of LBDSM

Based in Manchester, UK, writer P M Buchan is the co-creator of obscene horror-comedy anthology BLACKOUT and has had comics serialised in Starburst Magazine and SCREAM: The Horror Magazine. He has reviewed graphic novels for The Times Literary Supplemented, acted as a columnist for Panel Nine’s INFINITY, and has written for Rue Morgue magazine online and Lionsgate’s Fright Club e-magazine. His short stories have been published in The Bleed magazine and his short horror films have screened at festivals around the UK. In 2013 he was a juror for the British Fantasy Awards.

Artist Karen Yumi Lusted is the creator of Final Blossom and Tommi C. and the Cat Burglar. She collaborated with P M Buchan in Non Repro’s J-Cult anthology, and Karen’s art appeared in 1000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists. In 2008 she won the 16+ premade art prize at the Manga Shakespeare / Sweatdrop MCM Expo art competition. Karen currently lives and teaches English in Japan.

 

About For the Wolf

For the Wolf is an American dark punk-rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Combining a love of horror with stoner metal influences, For the Wolf has a macabre sound that will thrill children of the night and ignite Halloween dancefloors.

Kristy Emory (vocals) and husband Coby Emory (guitar) proved that blood is thicker than water when the band formed in 2010, alongside Noah Emory (drums, twin brother to Coby), Jeremy Mullis (guitar, brother to Kristy) and Rockey Jackson (bass, lifelong family friend). Bonding over a love of movies like Return of the Living Dead and Night of the Demons, and bands like Black Sabbath and Deftones, For the Wolf has been electrifying fans ever since.

For the Wolf’s first EP, Floating Through The Veins, was released in 2011, followed by the full-length album Hi, Tapes! in 2012. The band provide the theme song for KMOD’s Big Mad Morning Show and recorded the ominous anthem, Aethry, for the Nowata Asylum Haunted House in 2012. Having opened for bands like Powerman 5000 and Harley Poe, For the Wolf create alternative punk, with teeth.

Visit www.forthewolfok.com for more information or talk to the band directly through Facebook –www.facebook.com/forthewolfok.

 

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