Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Entertainment, announced today at New York Comic-Con that they will be publishing a hardcover collection of Finnish cartoonist JP Ahonen’s webcomic “Belzebubs.” The series updates every Friday on their Facebook page, and hardcovers have already been published in Finnish, French, and Spanish, with a Greek translation coming in November. The English translation will be released in February.
The series is described as:
A “trve kvlt mockumentary” focusing on the everyday challenges of family life: raising kids, running a small business, and making time for worship. Except the kids are named Lilith and Leviathan, the business is a black-metal band, and the worship… isn’t exactly aimed upstairs.
In a few short years, what started out as improvised social-media doodles has now become a wildly successful webcomic with hundreds of thousands of fans. The irresistible cartooning of JP Ahonen (“Sing No Evil”) combines relatable slice-of-life humor with over-the-top occult antics and references from metal music to Lovecraftian horror, making Belzebubs a devil of a good time.
In addition, the band Belzebubs has signed a record deal with Century Media, the largest heavy-metal record label in the world. The band has already put out two singles, and will have a full album released by the time the webcomic depicting the behind the scenes hijinks comes out. You can check out the music video for their first single, “Blackened Call,” below.
You can find out more about the webcomic and the band here at their website, and look for “Belzebubs,” a 120-page hardcover collecting the entirety of the published webcomic, plus some extras, in February.
