Media release — BOOM! Studios is pumped to reveal HI-FI fight CLUB, a new series introducing in August from filmmaker Carly Usdin (Suicide Kale, RuPaul’s Drag Race) as well as artist Nina Vakueva (Lilith’s Word). Hi-Fi fight Club is a music-infused, action-adventure series that takes rock ‘n’ roll fandom out of the record store as well as into the streets.
The year: 1998. The place: new Jersey. Chris has just started the teen dream job: working at vinyl Mayhem, the regional record store. She’s prepared to offer with anything—misogynistic metalheads, grunge wannabes, even a crush on her wicked adorable co-worker, Maggie. however when Rory Gory, the staff’s preferred singer, mysteriously vanishes the night before her band’s show in town, Chris discovers out her colleagues are doing much more than just sorting vinyl…her regional indie record store is likewise a front for a teen woman vigilante fight club!
“Hi-Fi fight Club is equal parts empire Records as well as The Baby-Sitters Club, with a bit D.E.B.S., Scott Pilgrim, as well as Lumberjanes in there as well,” explains Usdin. “It’s a fantasy based on my life growing up in new jersey in the ’90s. All I wished to do was to work at a record store as well as be a superhero. music was my main implies for self-discovery as well as I look back on that time period extremely fondly. There’s likewise some wish-fulfillment on a deeply personal level as I do commonly desire I had come out in high institution instead of waiting up until college.”
“I like producing as well as establishing characters for stories, so I look ahead to discovering much more about our Hi-Fi fight Club cast with their actions as well as speech, coming up with special gestures as well as facial expressions for them, as well as developing their private styles,” adds Vakueva. “Plus, with the story set in the ’90s, it’s been a good bonus offer browsing with a great deal of fashion pictures from that period!”
While Vakueva has dealt with her own webcomic (Lilith’s Word) before, this is Usdin’s very first foray into the medium.
“You can’t see it however I have a outrageous smile on my deal with best now,” beams the filmmaker. “I liked comic books as a kid—I spent countless hours hanging out in our regional comic book shop with my mom, going to regional conventions… so this is absolutely a dream come true. as well as I couldn’t envision having a much better partner than BOOM! Studios.”
“This comic handles to integrate so numerous of my preferred things I’ve lost count,” states Shannon Watters, Editor. “I cannot wait to see Carly as well as Nina rock this series!”
Covers for Hi-Fi fight Club #1 are illustrated by Vakueva as well as Lumberjanes co-creator Brooke Allen.
Print copies of Hi-Fi fight Club #1 will be offered for sale at regional comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to discover the nearest one) or at the BOOM! Webstore in August. digital copies will be offered to purchase on digital book marketplaces, including ComiXology as well as the BOOM! Studios app.
Hi-Fi fight Club is the most recent release from BOOM! Studios’ critically acclaimed BOOM! Box imprint, house to prominent original series such as Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen, as well as Noelle Stevenson; huge Days by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, as well as Max Sarin; The Backstagers by James Tynion IV as well as Rian Sygh; SLAM! by Pamela Ribon as well as Veronica Fish; as well as Goldie Vance by hope Larson as well as Brittney Williams.
For news on Hi-Fi fight Club as well as much more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com as well as comply with @boomstudios on Twitter.
Hi-Fi fight Club #1 (of 4)
Publisher: BOOM! Box, an imprint of BOOM! Studios
Writer: Carly Usdin
Artist: Nina Vakueva
Cover artists:
primary Cover: Nina Vakueva
teen film homage membership Variant Cover: Brooke Allen
Format: 32 pages, full color
Price: $3.99
On sale: August 2017
Synopsis:
Film as well as TV director Carly Usdin (Suicide Kale, RuPaul’s Drag Race) teams up with breakout artist Nina Vakueva for a new series that’s music to our ears!
New Jersey, 1998. Chris has just started the teen dream job: working at vinyl Mayhem, the regional record store. She’s prepared to offer with anything—misogynistic metalheads, grunge wannabes, even a crush on her wicked adorable co-worker, Maggie.
But when Rory Gory, the staff’s preferred singer, mysteriously vanishes the night before her band’s show in town, Chris discovers out her colleagues are doing much more than just sorting vinyl…her regional indie record store is likewise a front for a teen woman vigilante fight club!
About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios was established by Ross Richie in 2005 with the singular focus of producing world-class comic book as well as graphic book storytelling for all audiences. with the advancement of four unique imprints—BOOM! Studios, BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, as well as Archaianull
