Happy Hanukkah, everyone, from these two jerks! I’m posting this a little early this year. Line art by the amazing Ro Stein & Ted Brandt, and colour art by @deecunniffe. 

I want to point out what a technical achievement this story is on the art side. There’s a real joy to creating a whole story in eight panels, but this? This is some magic. We introduce four new characters. In panel 5, SIX PEOPLE are talking. SIX. In the world of comics, that’s almost un-doable. 

Yet Ro and Ted arranged everything so the conversations flow and are sensibly grouped, all the “acting” is fantastic, and then Dee laid on top these beautiful, almost fairytale colours -- look at the subtle work, the blush in Henry’s cheeks, Frank’s five o-clock shadow, the shine of the wine bottle’s glass surface, the light texturing in the backgrounds... and of course the snow! This is some first-class illustration work on an incredibly hard script. (I fear Ro and Ted always get me at my worst -- my very formalist script for them in the 24 Panels anthology was no cakewalk either. (The problem is, they’re just so damn good at it... check out their work on the Image comic Crowded!)

As always, if you like what we do in Hells Kitchen Movie Club, consider donating a little to a veteran’s charity. 

(I also have a thriller novel I’m crowdfunding, please check it out, we are more than halfway there. The book is all written...)

I really love these little strips.  You should absolutely check them out.

HELL'S KITCHEN MOVIE CLUB belongs to Alex de Campi, Dave Acosta, and Dee Cunniffe.

HELL’S KITCHEN MOVIE CLUB: #1 Origin Story. 

Written by Alex de Campi

Drawn by Dave Acosta 

HELLS KITCHEN MOVIE CLUB #7: STARSHIP TROOPERS

Art by @meredithmcclaren, antifascism by me

As always we are unable legally to make money off these strips, but please consider chucking a few dollars at the nice folks at Stop Soldier Suicide instead because Lord only knows our government isn’t taking care of our veterans.

Also, I have a prose novel that’s crowdfunding at the moment and you like action and murder and cliffhangers and knights, hello, maybe you might like The Scottish Boy.

HELLS KITCHEN MOVIE CLUB #6: BAD BOYS 2! Legit one of my favourite movies. Art by @felipesobreiro!

As always we are unable legally to make money off these strips, but please consider chucking a few dollars at the nice folks at Stop Soldier Suicide instead.

Also, I have a prose novel that’s crowdfunding at the moment and you like action and murder and cliffhangers and knights, hello, maybe you might like The Scottish Boy.

Reposting Hells Kitchen Movie Club #5 (Death Wish) in a bigger, more legible image size ahead of posting #6 in a few minutes! This episode features guest artist @meredithmcclaren, who did one of my fave stories in our Twisted Romance anthology (out now from @ImageComics.) 

If you love #hkmc or we’ve brought you joy, please consider donating $5 to your fave veterans charity. We dig Stop Soldier Suicide: 

https://stopsoldiersuicide.org/donate/

Don’t feel bad if you can’t donate, we do this comic for fun and will keep doing it, it’s just cool if it can do some good for the world at the same time.

A little #hkmc reissue as ‘tis the season. Line art by Dave Acosta; colour art by @deecunniffe. I’m offline until 2019 now, until then, Merry Christmas to all*, and to all a good fight.

*(or as we say in New York City, “Merry Christmas And Happy Chinese Restaurant Dinner”.)

Look at this amazing art for Hells Kitchen Movie Club that @meredithmcclaren made!!! I’m overcome!

We have about a dozen more HKMC strips written and we should be going mostly monthly again from July, once everyone’s schedules calm down a bit. Honestly I just want to get to the Predator one, because it’s really, really funny. (Also the Death Wish one.) If you don’t know what HKMC is, it’s a webcomic by me, @dave-acosta and @deecunniffe about the Punisher and the Winter Soldier watching bad action movies together (because nobody else will watch with them). It was supposed to be just a funny thing, but somehow it also became about PTSD and loss and friendship…