and Tom Muller
Via The A.V. Club, Image Comics have announced writer Ram V, artist Anand RK, and letterer Aditya Bidikar (the creative team behind “Grafity’s Wall”) will reunite for “Blue in Green,” a new horror graphic novel. Due out in October, the book will follow a young jazz musician who goes too far in his quest to achieve greatness.
“Music, particularly jazz, and the imagery and history that it evokes has always been a subject of fascination for me,” Ram V told The A.V. Club. “When Anand and I began discussing ‘Blue In Green,’ we realized immediately that we had an opportunity to take that love of music and art and use it as a canvas to tell a character-focused, grounded and yet disturbing horror story. Something that was mature and nuanced and used music and fiction as a lens to investigate the horrors that we as artists inflict upon ourselves in the pursuit of that intangible ephemeral spark of creative genius.”
Anand RK added, “‘Blue In Green’ is a coming together of some of my biggest influences both in terms of genre and in stylistic tone. It comes at a time when realism and grounded storytelling is something of great interest to me. It is both a distant and an intensely personal project at the same time. The protagonist, in many ways, is me. I have used myself as reference to draw him, grew a beard for this reason, many of my own little personal traits have made their way into him. The gradual shift in a man’s psyche and his grip on his world, the way Ram plays with the tone and craftfully shifts it and then brings it all back without making it look jarring, this is something that I find quite exciting about this book, even as I draw it. I think readers are going to see that come through in the work. They’ll hopefully find something intensely human and personal in a story that often pushes at the edges of its own reality.”
For more from the creators as well as a four-page preview, head on over to The A.V. Club.
