Publisher Josh Frankel said, “Very few bands have had such lasting importance to American rock history as the Doors, and to be able to work with them directly is unreal. To have been afforded the honor to add to the band’s enduring legacy with their first comic anthology further cements Z2’s status as the premier publisher of comics for music fans, and an honor we don’t take lightly.”
Z2 stated the book “will feature some of the [Doors] lore that led to their status as the architects of counterculture, influencing artists, poets, and outsiders for generations to come, set against the backdrop of the close of the free spirit of the 1960s into the tumultuous 1970s. A decade in which women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays, lesbians, and other marginalized people continued their fight for equality and many Americans joined the protest against the ongoing war in Vietnam.”
The book will published on October 13, with a simultaneously released limited slipcase edition that will include a 50th anniversary edition 12-inch picture disc of the complete album, and three exclusive art prints.
