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Comics Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri

Better Zombies Through Physics

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Published on September 16, 2008

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Join us for chills, thrills, and pulse-pounding scientific breakthroughs as we embark on a tour of the Quantum Zombie, Inc. facility, courtesy of a guy who bears a striking resemblance to famed scientist and cat-lover Erwin Schrödinger. Hijinks, hilarity, and an abundance of felines await you in “Better Zombies Through Physics.”

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Chapter 1: Less Than 34 Shopping Days Until All Hallow’s Eve!

Chapter 2: The Lab of the Living Dead

Chapter 3: The (Death) March of Progress

Chapter 4: The Wrong Customer Is Always Right

Chapter 5: The Cat’s Out of the Bag Box

Chapter 6: “…the living and the dead cat smeared out in equal parts.”

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Jim Ottaviani

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Jim is the author of seven graphic novels about scientists (so far), on topics ranging from physicists to paleontogists to behaviorists. He's probably the only comics writer whose books have received acclaim from both Physics World and Vampirella Magazine.

Upcoming titles include biographies of Richard Feynman and the Trimates (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas) for First Second, and "T-Minus," the story of the space race, for Simon & Schuster's young adult imprint Aladdin.

His day job used to be as a nuclear engineer. He's now a librarian at the University of Michigan.

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Sean Bieri

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Sean Bieri is an illustrator, grapic designer, and cartoonist whose humorous mini-comics include Business Chimp, The Gospel According to St. Segar, the Jape series, and others. His work appears in Jim Ottaviani's Two Fisted Science, the anthology True Porn, and online at Serializer.net. This year, a comic strip synopsis of the scandals surrounding Detroit's former mayor, for which Bieri provided art, won an award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. He is the art director of Detroit's free weekly paper Metro Times and lives with his wife in the tiny urban enclave of Hamtramck, Michigan.

Sean's work for Tor.com includes his own The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas and art for Ottaviani's Better Zombies Through Physics. View Sean's Tor.com artist gallery here.

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sprockets
16 years ago

I’ll take what’s behind the curtain, Monty!

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16 years ago

These are hilarious! I can’t wait to see how the story turns out.

BTW, There’s no pdf download link for this one.
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16 years ago

Oops. No pdf link for Chapter 4, that is.

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cybertao
16 years ago

Great stuff! I was talking to my girlfriend about the concept of Schröder’s cat recently, and we had a right ball joking around about it. Original and creative character creation, subtle and effective humour, and very nice artwork. Keep up the good work.

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Nat
16 years ago

You know the first thing that popped at me (beside the yummy artwork), was the old school phone in the woman’s hand (Ch. 2). One morning, to test a theory (and win an argument against my manfolk), I asked my ten year old son to make the sound of a telephone. Looking at me weirdly, he goes “loo-loo-loot”. Not “dring-dring”. Man, did we ever feel old.

Quantum Zombies, Inc. rocks!

Incidentally, zombies are the *one* thing that terrifies me. I know, it ranks high on the loser-o-meter. But damn, they’re so… *brr*

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Dead Ted
15 years ago

I though the CAT was OUT of the box – not dead ??

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byron13
15 years ago

Great stuff! I was talking to my girlfriend about the concept of Schröder’s cat recently, and we had a right ball joking around about it. Original and creative character creation, subtle and effective humour, and very nice artwork. Keep up the good work.