Pink Zombie Rose is the only thing I've ever seen that's perfectly balanced on the fulcrum of undead rotting insanity & refreshing mind-blowing creativity. Any fan of surreal & weird lit owes it to themselves to check out this illuminated magnum opus.

Ben Sheridan, Lead Editor (Funemployment Press)

PZR is a journey down I-75, between Toledo & Detroit, between raw mysticism & a scarred and scabbed Rust Belt. Galvanized by Beppi's bold illustrations, Dia VanGunten's characters are stained

glass windows peering out from crumbling churches, illuminating an American metaphysical universe that is psychically resonant.

-Casey Jo Stohrer, comic artist

Pink Zombie Rose is actually as cool as it sounds. The phantasmagoric text has everything even a closeted weirdo could ask for-and then some! With well-developed yet constantly evolving characters, and one-of-a-kind mind-bending narratives, this trippy comic series is a wild ride on the crazy train. Truly unique and unclassifiable, Pink Zombie Rose doesn't just cross genres, it smashes them together like a Jackson Pollock painting. The scene is expertly captured by amazing illustrations that bring each page to another level of existence. This surreal series crawled out of the sewers and is eager to infect you with feral dreams, kinky fantasies, existential crises, and a monstrous hunger for more.

-Tinamarie Cox, writer & reader

PZR is a big story about little everyday deaths...the wounds we suffer, and our loneliness. Through spellwork-rhythm, repetition, sound-this book makes you cry, but only to remember that we're humans gathered around an ancient campfire. The immediacy feels like a conversation with old friends. You'll adore the Verne twins and their lovers, even the monsters. Pink Zombie Rose is a potent reminder of who we are as a people and why our world is worth saving.

-Chris Hicks, artist & writer

Surrealism was originally a tool for fighting fascism-a means for artists to present subversive work that wouldn't immediately get them murdered. We need much more of this, and quick. Not just politics, but humanity, needs to evolve...to stop destroying our environment/animals/habitats, to accept that there are spectrums in all aspects of humanity (gender, sexuality, philosophy, etc.) and see that, perhaps, nothing is actually binary. Pink Zombie Rose is trying to trigger that evolution, which makes it exactly what our modern society needs right now. Dia and Beppi are essential, vital & required.

-Jim Doran, comic artist

The ontological majesty of PZR is mind bending, sexy, neurotic, erotic, violent, terrifying, and the coolest thing you will read this year. Taking ideas of identity to the breaking point and beyond, this is the New Magical Realism we've been longing for, thundering, American, and very, very queer. PZR speaks the language of the outsider, rendering their-our-narrative central and reckoning in the most immediate way, with our role in the end of days. This is the meta-textual commentary on our age that we need.

-Gwendolyn Harper, writer & editor of Viridian Lit

Publisher: Q

Pub date: 2025-04-01

Length: 202 pages