We had been already excited sufficient that Dream Theater bought again along with Mike Portnoy and had been releasing an album referred to as Parasomnia. Even higher now, Dream Theater are bringing much more visuals to it by teaming up with Z2 Comics. Known as Parasomnia: The Graphic Album, the graphic novel will depict the album’s dream themes advised by way of eight interlinked tales.
The workforce behind Parasomnia: The Graphic Album features a grip of unimaginable expertise, some having accolades from Nebula, Locus, Inkpot, and Eisner. The novel will likely be damaged up into eight chapters, based mostly on the album’s eight songs, with Eisner-winning artist Tony Harris offering the artwork.
Award-winning writers and artists—spanning Nebula, Locus, Inkpot, and Eisner pedigrees—have every crafted a story impressed by one of many album’s songs, blurring the boundary between the dreamworld and waking actuality. Eisner-winning artist Tony Harris supplies the visible framework, creating symbolic iconography for each monitor that seems each on the quilt and initially of every chapter.
Dream Theater guitarist and vocalist John Petrucci shared:
“It’s been so superior attending to work with the Z2 workforce on this epic collaboration. Having the chance to discover various interpretations of the songs on Parasomnia by way of the eyes of so many proficient artists has been actually inspirational. The distinctive storytelling abilities of all of the writers in addition to the unimaginable art work that displays so many alternative types of graphic artistry was simply superb to witness. I believe followers of this media, our DT neighborhood and simply anybody who appreciates gorgeous shows of human creativity will actually get pleasure from this darkish and generally twisted journey by way of the realm of Parasomnia!”
Nebula award-winning writer Vajra Chandrasekera then added:
“I used to be intrigued and delighted by the chance to put in writing for this e-book! It’s a really totally different medium for me, since practically all my expertise is in prose fiction, and I had a good time working with Rocky OBK, whose unimaginable artwork made my script into one thing unusual and so stunning. I hope everybody enjoys studying it as a lot as we loved making it.”
The complete inventive workforce for Parasomnia: The Graphic Album is listed as follows: Cat Rambo, Lydia Rasero, Kevin J. Anderson, Christian Rosado, Benjamin Raab, Deric Hughes, Gianenrico Bonacorsi, Dan Hernandez, Damien Worm, Gavin Highnight, Sofia Girol, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rocky Obk, Steve Niles, Stan Yak, John Reppion, Ryan Kelly, Simone D’Angelo and Lucas Carvalho.
You’ll be able to pre-order totally different editions of Parasomnia: The Graphic Album by going right here.
