Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer James Aquilone’s Monstrous Books has celebrated the traditions of pulp fiction and classic movie monsters with Monstrous Magazine, an acclaimed black-and-white magazine-format comic book anthology that features some of the most interesting and inventive genre writers being published today. Now, Monstrous Magazine will look east for the inspiration for its next all-star anthology. Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue will celebrate the legendary monsters from Japan, just in time for the ongoing global celebration of Godzilla’s 70th anniversary!
The pre-launch page for Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue is now live, and readers can click on it to get an email when the crowdfunding project launches.
Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue features a fantastic line-up, including:
- “The Colossus From the Crater,” a brand-new sci-fi short story set on a remote moon and featuring a giant alien mummy, penned by novelist Greg Cox, who wrote the official prose adaptations for Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
- An all-new Konga vs. Gorgo comic, featuring the creatures from the cult 1960s American International Pictures movies and Charlton Comics, written by James Aquilone and illustrated by Dave Swartz (Confederate Monster)
- Three iconic covers — including a Konga vs. Gorgo cover by Larry Tuason (Knightingail: The Legend Begins) and a MegaSquatch cover by EV Cantada and colorist Zac Atkinson.
Speaking of covers, check out Tuason’s iconic cover design, featuring Konga and Gorga below:
Just like the creatures themselves, this magazine (previously digest size) will be enlarged to a full-size 8.5-x-11-inch format. “When I decided to do a Kaiju issue of Monstrous Magazine, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do a Kaiju-size magazine, so we’re going from 5.5 x 8.5 to 8.5 x 11 inches,” said James Aquilone. “And that’s just the beginning. We’re resizing the Monstrous Magazine back issues, too, and now, for a limited time, they will be available in the new collectible, oversized Kaiju format.”
Other rewards for the Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue campaign include the debut issue of Monstrous Presents, a 32-page comic reprinting “Rise of the Morlocks” and “Dead Jack and Oswald Meet Frankenstein,” both by James Aquilone and artist J.K. Woodward.
The prelaunch page for the Kickstarter campaign for Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue is now live.
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