Much ado is made about Matt Fraction’s sexy comic “Sex Criminals” with Chip Zdarsky at Image, but the songs are less sung about an equally great book he writes: “Satellite Sam” with Howard Chaykin, also at Image. Basically the current title holder of “Official Mad Men of Comics”, it’s a dark period piece surrounding the death of the actor who portrayed Satellite Sam on television, focusing on the seedy underbelly of broadcast television.
And now, in a move that seems unequivocably perfect for the book, Fraction and Chaykin have made a Satellite Sam Tijuana Bible. For those unaware, a Tijuana Bible is a type of explicit comic focusing on what adults get up to when the doors are shut and the lights are off. They were made popular, however, by often featuring pop culture figures, essentially the first instance of the internet’s 34th rule. They were illegal and traded about, and thematically they fit very well into the story of “Satellite Sam.”
So “Satellite Sam” getting its own Tijuana Bible is great, and perfect for someone like Chaykin (especially given, y’know, “Black Kiss” and all that). And if your retailer orders 10 copies of “Satellite Sam” #8, you too can own your own little dirty book! Hooray!
Here’s the solicit for the issue, on sale May 7th:
Story By: Matt Fraction
Art By: Howard Chaykin
Cover By: Howard Chaykin
Cover Price: $3.50
Digital Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: FEB140626
Published: May 7, 2014SEX! DEATH! LIVE TV! Michael and Kara make a major breakthrough in their unofficial investigation into the death of the man that played “Satellite Sam” as everyone’s kinks and obsessions go into overdrive—and scandal threatens to tear the show and the network apart.
For the full press release from Image Comics, please see below.
Image Comics Press Release
The dark and raunchy SATELLITE SAM turns up the heat with retailers by offering a scandalous new incentive comic stores won’t be able to resist. Retailers who order ten or more copies of SATELLITE SAM #8 will be able to indulge in the SATELLITE SAM TIJUANA BIBLE—free!
In the spirit of Great Depression-era Tijuana Bibles, SATELLITE SAM indulges in the explicit and the definitively adults only content in the format of those classic and illegal bootleg comics—at the same time the cast of SATELLITE SAM #8 receive it themselves.
When asked to comment on the TIJUANA BIBLE, Chaykin said evasively: “Actually, as I recall this was Matt’s idea—I just got innocently sucked into a maelstrom of filth.”
Fraction however, had a different take: “I have long-dreamed of producing a piece of filth with Howard Victor Chaykin, my number-one international pornographer of choice,” he began. “That we had a place in Satellite Sam where a classic Tijuana Bible could appear in both story and the real world as a special (‘special’) thank you to retailers and readers that are on this dark little journey with us was the cherry on top.”
“A perfect combination of (sort of) youthful integrity and (young) elder opportunism,” quipped Chaykin.
SATELLITE SAM #8, featuring the TIJUANA BIBLE as a story point, arrives in stores on 5/7, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code FEB140626. Retailers who order 10 or more copies of SATELLITE SAM #8 will receive 10 copies of the SATELLITE SAM TIJUANA BIBLE for free.
SATELLITE SAM #7 (Diamond Code JAN140613) is available now to order.
SATELLITE SAM, VOL. 1 (ISBN 978-1607068525) is available in stores and to order with Diamond Code NOV130453.
