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By Rich Stahnke

Before Apeman and Monkeyboy made their first appearance in the pages of Bubba the Redneck Werewolf's Super Sci-Fi Special, the publishers - a smashing independent company called Silent Devil - put a great deal of effort into promoting the comic and our characters. They advertised the book on the net and in several of their other titles, they included a feature about AM and MB on the front page of their website, and they also produced a special poster starring the super-powered primates and several other simian characters, prints of which were used to decorate their stand at various conventions - and the image above is a digital reproduction. Of it.

The whole "Year of the Monkey" thing came about as the result of a happy coincidence - it just so happened that AM and MB's debut coincided with the release of two other ape-related comics from Silent Devil, and they hit upon the splendid idea of promoting all three titles together. The other comics were Monkey vs Lemur, a fantastically funny thing created by Chris Moreno and Ken Lillie-Paetz, and Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey, an action-packed (and also highly amusing) three-part mini series written and drawn by a talented fellow named Rich Stahnke. It was he who created the poster, and as you can see, he did a terrific job of rendering Apeman and Monkeyboy in glorious techno-colour. Curiously enough, Larry and I had no idea that the poster was even being created until after it was finished - we just happened upon it on the Silent Devil website one day, which was an excellent surprise.

Just so you know, the characters at the top are Lemur and Monkey (from Monkey vs Lemur, obv), and the guy in the middle is Chip, the star of Mr Stahnke's thoroughly groovesome comic. If you'd like to find out more about Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey, and see more of Rich's ace artwork, simply click the following linky bit [link] and you'll be transported directly to his personal MySpace place, which is full of nifty stuff. Go on, you know you want to.

Description
By Rich Stahnke

Before Apeman and Monkeyboy made their first appearance in the pages of Bubba the Redneck Werewolf's Super Sci-Fi Special, the publishers - a smashing independent company called Silent Devil - put a great deal of effort into promoting the comic and our characters. They advertised the book on the net and in several of their other titles, they included a feature about AM and MB on the front page of their website, and they also produced a special poster starring the super-powered primates and several other simian characters, prints of which were used to decorate their stand at various conventions - and the image above is a digital reproduction. Of it.

The whole "Year of the Monkey" thing came about as the result of a happy coincidence - it just so happened that AM and MB's debut coincided with the release of two other ape-related comics from Silent Devil, and they hit upon the splendid idea of promoting all three titles together. The other comics were Monkey vs Lemur, a fantastically funny thing created by Chris Moreno and Ken Lillie-Paetz, and Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey, an action-packed (and also highly amusing) three-part mini series written and drawn by a talented fellow named Rich Stahnke. It was he who created the poster, and as you can see, he did a terrific job of rendering Apeman and Monkeyboy in glorious techno-colour. Curiously enough, Larry and I had no idea that the poster was even being created until after it was finished - we just happened upon it on the Silent Devil website one day, which was an excellent surprise.

Just so you know, the characters at the top are Lemur and Monkey (from Monkey vs Lemur, obv), and the guy in the middle is Chip, the star of Mr Stahnke's thoroughly groovesome comic. If you'd like to find out more about Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey, and see more of Rich's ace artwork, simply click the following linky bit [link] and you'll be transported directly to his personal MySpace place, which is full of nifty stuff. Go on, you know you want to.