ISSUE IS DONE!!! May 1st, we go live and it will be available for download!!!

May 1st is when it’s throwing down!

Here is a sneak peek at the cover!

I have seen the first 45 pages from my layout person, Jason Van Horn and I have to say it looks amazing!  The art, the interviews, the stories all come together in this amalgamation of grotesque beauty!

I already have enough stories for Issue Two but I am still seeking subs for Issues 3, 4 and 5.

 

Again, the themes are:

Issue 3: Serial Killers

Issue 4: Sex and Death

Issue 5: Mutations and Mutilations

 

Also, we are still looking for a music columnist who wants to report on “dark or cutting edge bands” that most people don’t know about.  As well as a graphic novel artist who might want to draw a monthly 5 page comic for the mag. Payment negotiated and as always we are looking for artists who just want to get their work seen. So if you are a photographer or painter or sketch artist, show us what you got!  Get on the train, before this thing takes off. I got bizarro writer Carlton Melnick for Issue 2, Nik Korpon and the amazing art of Joe Whiteford (of the band “Harley Poe”), as seen below.

You can contact me at dangrn77@hotmail.com.  Just put “Surreal Grotesque” in the subject heading.

Issue One of Surreal Grotesque……..

So it’s official, we are going to be a pdf mag not a webzine.  I will add the link through this website but eventually I will buy my own web domain for the magazine and link you all to it.   We have a fan page on Facebook and the submissions are rolling in.  I am going to try and go for a monthly format.  So far issues one, two and three are already getting planned!!!
Thank you to Jason Van Horn for the layout, Peter T for the awesome artwork which is going to blow your socks off and Richard Thomas and Bradley Sands for contributing to the first issue!!   THIS THING IS GOING TO BE HUGE!!!!

Prepare yourselves people!  At least 60 something pages of non-stop madness, stories, art, movie/book/music reviews.

Death by Celluloid:  movie reviews by Pandamask (Andrew Guerra)

Digital Apocalypse:  video game reviews by Pandamask

Books of the Dead:  book reviews by Dakota Taylor

A comic strip by David Shepard.

Fist your Kitty with Love:  An Interview with the band, Fist Kitten by Daniel Gonzales

“Vision Quest” by Richard Thomas

“Scavenger Hunt” by Bradley Sands

Alternate Realities & Acceptance Letters by Daniel W. Gonzales

Abyss by Gregori Black

K-6 by Dakota Taylor

Ant Colony by Jason Van Horn

The Smut by Joshua Dobson

Unwelcome Guests by Charles King

The Ugly Husband by Nathaniel Tower

ALL FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Future Themed Issues:

Issue Three:  A Day in the Life of a Serial Killer

Issue Four:  Sex and Death

Issue Five:  Medical Abnormalities