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Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett Launch Section Zero 1959 – the Year They Were Both Born

Published Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:30:56 -0600

Tom Grummett and Karl Kesel just launched a Kickstarter for their first Section Zero original graphic novel titled Section Zero 1959, their tribute to Jack Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown and Marvel monster comics like Fin Fang Foom.

And set in 1959 because that's the year Tom and Karl were born – 60 years ago.

SECTION ZERO is not a secret section of the United Nation's charter. It does not fund a team of experts and explorers to investigate the strange and unknown. This team is an urban myth— as "real" as the UFOs and monsters they're "protecting mankind from."

And in 1959— they didn't know how much they didn't know.

Karl tells us,

SECTION ZERO 1959 is Tom and my love letter to both Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown, and those early Marvel monster stories that filled titles like Tales to Astonish. For better or worse, those comics definitely left a mark on me!

The main story— with the characters in their SECTION ZERO uniforms— will be presented like any other comic, but there will also be four solo stories of the characters before they joined the team. These stories will undergo "1959-ization" to better capture the feel of comics from that time…

With some Kickstarter details to follow…

We're Kickstarting the SECTION ZERO 1959 ULTRA-COOL COLLECTORS' EDITION, which will look a lot like this:

Hardcover Oversized— 7.5 x 11 inches. Larger than most trade paperbacks.
124+ Full-color Pages
Introduction by Mark Waid. I hear he knows a few things about comics.
Pin-ups by Erik Larsen! Steve Rude! Ron Randall! Leila del Duca! And more! With theircreator-owned characters teaming-up with Tom and my SECTION ZERO characters! How cool is that?
"Zero Secrets"— behind-the-scenes sketches and stories about how the book came together.
Spot gloss on the cover? Ribbon bookmark? Full color endsheets? Fingers crossed. See Stretch Goals.

And here's a look ahead…