Zombie Slash

As a fan of the post-apocalyptic zombie comic book series, The Walking Dead, I’m psyched for the new AMC TV series based on the books! The show premieres this October.

Among the the latest Walking Dead news, the show’s zombie makeup mastermind, Greg Nicotero, gave an interview on AMC’s blog last week that reveals some of the details of his work. I’m happy to see he draws primarily on the fresh zombie art from the comic books for visual style. Here’s a preview of some of his work:

Check out the full interview here and a round up of other interviews and fresh photos from the set on AMC’s Waking Dead blog here.

Images from AMC’s Waking Dead blog

Last year’s innovative TV series (BBC3/ITV), Moving Wallpaper, where fictional TV industry characters produced the soap opera, Echo Beach — which then showed in “real life” following each episode of Moving Wallpaper — is up for a second season. The fictional studio’s soap opera has been canceled, and the dejected studio has their newest assignment: Zombie Movie.

The second zombie-infested season premieres Friday, February 27 on British television. In the US, we love to copy British TV hits like The Office and Wife Swap. So will America get its own primetime zombie show soon? *hope hope!*