New Horror Comic from Portent Comics

[KL Jones]

A great old Motown song once asked “What becomes of the broken hearted?” Uncle Tickle endeavors to explore the grisly extremes of that musical question. It all started when David Todd Ocvirk the president of movie development and a contributing editor at Aggressive Studios mentioned to Aggressive’s own Ken L. Jones that he thought the studio should do a comic book about a killer clown if there was anything still left that hadn’t been said on the subject. Ken then sat down at home with his writing partner and son Kevin who remembered a very old character in the Aggressive universe called Uncle Tickle who was always kind of waiting around to be further developed . At that point they knew he was some kind of live TV kiddy show host who had a serious break with reality after his show was canceled which caused him to murder everyone in his audience and his TV crew on a live TV feed before he escaped to a life of crime. Jones thinking that they had the germ of something there thought he might make it even more interesting by putting together a creative strike force he dubbed “Team Tickle” who would all have an equal say in all aspects of Uncle Tickle’s creation. Besides Ocvirk and the two Joneses he also brought on board art director and senior editor Tom Luth as well as their dynamic new artist Jag Lall of London , England. An excited flurry of email exchanges resulted in not only the first issue but in the plotting out of a whole slate of future issues as well. When this was accomplished the Joneses adapted the first issue from the group’s plot and with the approval of everyone involved its fourteen pages were completed in a record two and half week’s time. Uncle Tickle is a modernization and extrapolation of the classic opera Pagliacci . It shifts and tilts between Freddy Kruger style violence and low brow gutter humor to the heights of the high blown world of art galleries and symphony halls. Ultimately Uncle Tickle is a meditation on what happens when you dream a dream that can not be so hard and so long that it rots your very mind and soul.Its far reaching tragedy will we think be a mirror that nobody will be able to look into and not come away realizing just how very fragile existence truly is .
A book as unique as Uncle Tickle required just the right publisher and James Redington's Portent Comics in England is just such a place. Uncle Tickle joins a unique line up there. Uncle Tickle can be ordered online at:
[url]http://www.comixpress.com/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=19
and will cost $2.25 and should be available around November 1st.