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You can check out new ARTWORK HERE .
You can check out the Byron web comic HERE
Of course, back issues of Byron: Die, Byron! Die! are still available HERE for only .89 cents each.
"Writer/artist Karl Christian Krumpholz's comic series, Byron, tells a story of growing up, discovering who you are, and learning just how foolish it is to glamorize dark things that very well might be real. Set in the pulsing, dimly-lit world of the gothic night club, "Lord Byron," dressed to the nines, craves the attention and approval of the club crowd, and he tries just a bit too hard to impress: Byron is living the unfortunate life of a poseur in a world filled with real life menace. - SLG Publishing
"Karl Christian Krumpholz has... crafted a wry and ofttimes truly terrifying book. The protagonist Byron is characterized with a complexity of ambition and insecurity that has only ever been handled properly in the best of small press gems (such as Blue Monday or Strangers in Paradise), though the self-defacing humor of the book gives it its own, unique flavor."-Dave Baxter at Broken Frontier .
"It's Pinocchio meets Candide meets Kubrick doing funny... Twisted but clever.... the action reaches out and squirts you in the eye." --Mark Moyes, Rue-Morgue Magazine
"Puncturing goth pretension with plastic fangs, Byron: Mad, Bad, And Dangerous (Slave Labor) is a loving deconstruction of the vampire-comics glut. Sprinkled with everything from H.P. Lovecraft an..o Peter Cushing and subcultural politics, writer-artist Karl Christian Krumpholz weaves a diabolical yet lightweight tale of Byron, an ersatz goth who winds up tangled in the vicious plots of real vampires. It's clear that Krumpholz is injecting some firsthand observations into his fiction, and he likewise lends quirky soul to his artwork, which imagines a cuddly Richard Sala jamming with Tim Burton. B" - The Onion AV Club .
"For me, despite the presence of sassy vampires and hallucinogenic hypno-toads, Byron's tales resonate with truth. Living in his beloved dark fantasy world, Byron is completely unprepared for real darkness. I find that hauntingly familiar... - Ted Naifeh (creator of Courtney Crumrin, Polly and the Pirates, and How Loathsome) from his Introduction.
Dark lord of the night or unbearable poseur?* Explore the gloom- and drama-laden world of Lord Byron, as SLG/Eyemelt's Byron slouches to gothic life in his first graphic novel: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous
Both celebrating and skewering the subculture that keeps mascara profitable, Byron is a 136-page graphic novel collecting the razor-witted SLG Publishing series, previously available in individual issues on the SLG affiliate site Eyemelt.com.
Buoyed by a dynamic art style somewhere between the controlled lines of Marc Hempel and the wild expression of Evan Dorkin, Krumpholz's Byron follows a young Goth scenester through the wildest night of his life, as "Lord Byron" (blissfully unaware of his namesake's poetic legacy) and his similarly-named cohorts run afoul of hallucinogens, the police, an ancient vampire conspiracy and Byron's two-headed jar-baby brother.
But Byron persists--not through grit or determination, but by clinging to the frantic, feeble hope that maybe, someday, somebody will think he's cool. It's an affectionate swipe at the subculture that will make some people shake their heads--and others shudder in recognition.
The book will be released on antique vellum, with a cover printed using squid ink on taffeta, exquisitely stretched across razor-thin sheets of marble, each with a unique bookmark sewn from the fabric of the puffy blouse Tom Cruise wore as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire.
Okay, not really. But Byron wishes it would be.
*Poseur. Don't tell anyone we told you.
Video trailer for BYRON: Mad, Bad and Dangerous created by SLG Publishing
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The FIRST Byron Collection BYRON: Mad, Bad and Dangerous is now available from SLG Publishing and Amazon !!! Pick one up and show all your friends how COOL you are!!!!
