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“By Night,” a BOOM! Studios Series by John Allison and Christine Larsen Starting in June

By | March 10th, 2018
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At CBR, “Giant Days” creator John Allison and artist Christine Larsen (“Adventure Time,” “Holy Diver”) have announced “By Night,” a 12-issue comic that will be published by BOOM! Studios from June. The series follows two childhood friends, Jane, a chemistry major and aspiring documentary filmmaker, and Heather, an amateur urban explorer, who reunite to get rich by making a film about their paranormal experiences.

Allison described the comic as “combin[ing] my love of Fringe, The X-Files, Jon Ronson documentaries and long reads about the collapse of post-industrial Western society. It’s about going home after college and seeing your home town, and your old friends, through opened eyes.” He promised “interesting female protagonists, strange creatures, urban decay and sharp humor.”

Larsen was asked about penciling an original property instead of a licensed one like “Adventure Time.” She responded, “I’ve done a few original comics alongside the licensed work over the years — both for myself and for other publishers. There really isn’t a huge disparity between working on an established property and working on something original. After a research stage, a lot of exploratory drawing happens until something feels right. John had a good idea regarding what he wanted for the main characters — so that process wasn’t so different than the reinterpretation I do for a licensed property — but I pulled a lot of reference for the environments, creatures and support cast before I started sketching them.”

“By Night” #1 will be released in June: head on over to CBR for a preview of the first issue and more artwork from Larsen, as well as comments from Allison about how the comic fits into his “Giant Days”/”Scary Go Round” universe (“Of course it is,” he said, “but in the sense that we exist in the Charlize Theron universe.”)


Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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