Eldritch! Shocked Back to Life in June

Do you count yourself among Anya Sobczek's friends? If you did you would know she's a snarling science major with an arm full of Darwin tattoos and a brother named Owen in a coven of teenage occultists. Oh yeah: his body has started bubbling with ancient tentacle beasties. It's all the story in Eldritch!.

The Drew Rausch and Aaron Alexovich work was part of the final Zuda webcomic competition and actually won, but it was pretty much forgotten until now. The duo has partnered with comiXology and Graphic.ly to release Eldritch! onto any digital medium you can think of. Each of the six 24-page issues will be available for $0.99 each. And just to whet your appetite for the series, check out a look at the first issue here. Full press release after the jump.

ELDRITCH! SHOCKED BACK TO LIFE THIS JUNE

Anya Sobczek is a snarling science major with an arm full of Darwin tattoos. Her brother Owen is a sensitive lad in a coven of teenage occultists. The Sobczek sibs don’t get along at the best of times, but now that Owen’s body has started bubbling with ancient tentacled beasties, their rivalry’s about to enter a whole new dimension of cosmic terror.

2010: Artists Drew Rausch and Aaron Alexovich hurled their infectious horror/comedy hybrid ELDRITCH! into blazing combat in DC Comics’ final Zuda webcomic competition. After several centuries it emerged, dazed and confused, with the word WINNER indelibly etched on its forehead.

It was promptly buried in an unmarked grave.

This summer, ELDRITCH! will be shocked back to life.

Aaron and Drew are feverishly happy to announce they’ve partnered with the mad doctors at COMIXOLOGY and GRAPHIC.LY to unleash ELDRITCH! onto every digital format they can sink their claws into, including iPad/iPod/iPhone, Android devices, your home computer and eNecronomicon (pending). Nook and Kindle versions are also in the works.

Starting THIS JUNE, ELDRITCH! will be released in six 24-page monthly installments, priced at $0.99 each. You can download the first nine totally reworked pages HERE: heartshapedskull.com/ELDRITCH/ELDRITCH_preview.pdf

You have waited long enough, Elder Things. Thank you to everyone who helped push ELDRITCH! to victory in 2010, and we hope to drive you all to gibbering madness in 2011. Help spread the infection!

About Aaron Alexovich: Aaron is the artist/writer of the spookycute horror series Serenity Rose and the teen cyberpunk novel Kimmie66. He’s also worked as an artist on Fables, Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Confessions of a Blabbermouth, and (in the animation world) Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender. AND ALSO MORE: heartshapedskull.com

About Drew Rausch: Drew Rausch is best known for his spooky scratchy cartoon work as seen in the pages of CTHULHU TALES, ZOMBIE TALES, DISNEY’S HAUNTED MANSION and THE DARK GOODBYE. He also co-created SULLENGREY. Proof of his artistic existence can be found at dreadscape.deviantart.com and sullengrey.blogspot.com.