PAPER + PLASTICK Releasing Dave Losso’s Kill the Wonderhawks

Here is a sneak preview of Dave’s new book Kill the Wonderhawks that we teased on Friday.

As most record labels prepared limited edition vinyl releases in celebration of Record Store Day last month, Paper + Plastick Records has been preparing a series of webcomics for fans to download for FREE starting today at midnight in celebration of Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 7th. Fans will be able to download the first issue of the 50 STATES series through the Paper + Plastick webstore, with first issues of Kill The Wonderhawks and Exit Interview to be released later this month. 

“Comics are something that I grew up with. They were the original things that I collected,” admits Paper + Plastick founder Vinnie Fiorello. “Later it turned to collecting records. There are artists like Ashley Wood that I continue to buy everything he is involved with.”

Paper + Plastick’s focus since beginning in 2009 was to bring the visual aspect back to music by releasing not only quality music, but pairing it with collectible records (etched b-sides, various shapes and colors, etc.) and stunning artwork. Having released a number of prints, over 60 records and a book of his own, Fiorello says “The idea of releasing comics wasn’t an original intent when starting the label, but releasing prints and books were. After becoming friends with comic writer/editorMatt Anderson it became a natural progression from stories I was writing personally for graphic novels to actually wanting to release other peoples, as well as my own. I see it as a natural progression in the label but I also see it as a brand new opportunity to do something I’ve never done before, by being a creator as well as a publisher of comics.”

50 States, the first of the three comics, tells the stories of different touring bands, with the first issue naturally being about Fiorello’s band Less Than Jake. “The Less Than Jake story is true,” he says. “We are trying to get away from the typical tour story you’d hear- we have been in touch with about a dozen bands, and picking the stories on the depth they have.” Artist Matt Jordan and script writer Matt Anderson worked on the first issue 50 States – while artist Aaron Pittman and writer Dave Losso (The Great Sandwich Detective) created the world-renowned team of Anti-heroes known as Kill The Wonderhawks, and will release the first issue later this month. The third new webcomic series Exit Interview, written by Matt Anderson and art by Brian Mead, is “a coming of age story set in a Twilight Zone-like world” and will be available this month.

Much in the vein of previous Paper + Plastick releases, the comics will be available for free download with a physical component to be published when the particular series wraps. “One issue a month is the goal for each of the three titles. We are starting with then when the stories wrap up we will be printing physical copies in graphic novel formats. Mind you this is all brand new so there will be plenty of surprises along they way and are expected,” comments Fiorello.