CHUM

Chum #1-3

by Ryan K. Lindsay, Sami Kivela (Artist), Mark Dale (Colorist)

A surf noir story about betrayal, murder, and a bag full of cash and drugs. Summer Stanwyck desperately wants to leave Kingsford Island to start a new life, and might have found her way, but if any of the men around her get in her way they'll be chum in the water. CHUM is "Pulp Fiction on the sand" from the critically acclaimed team behind DEER EDITOR, Ryan K Lindsay [Dark Horse's NEGATIVE SPACE] and Sami Kivelä [Zenescope's HIT LIST] deliver a story where "a primal, animalistic drive for bloodshed permeates the entire comic." [LJ Phillips, Slack Jaw Punks].

Genres: Graphic Novels

81 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 4, 2017

About the author

Ryan K Lindsay is an award winning Australian comic writer who has worked for a variety of publishers.
He has partnered with artist Eric Zawadzki to produce: ETERNAL through Black Mask Studios, and HEADSPACE, with Sebastian Piriz, through Monkeybrain Comics/IDW.
He has partnered with artist Sami Kivela to produce: BEAUTIFUL CANVAS through Black Mask Studios, DEER EDITOR through his own ‘Four Colour Ray Gun' imprint and a handful of Kickstarter successes, and CHUM through ComixTribe.
He was selected as a participant in the DC Writing Workshop group of 2016.
His other comics include: Aurealis and Ledger Award winning NEGATIVE SPACE with Owen Gieni through Dark Horse Comics, GLOVES with Tommy Lee Edwards in the Vertigo CMYK anthology, as well as EIR with Alfie Gallagher, INK ISLAND with Craig Bruyn, and STAIN THE SEAS SCARLET with Alex Cormack through Kickstarter for ‘Four Colour Ray Gun.’
He's written/edited analytical texts, including THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: EXAMINING MATT MURDOCK AND DAREDEVIL through Sequart, and has had essays published in Criminal, Godzilla, Sheltered, Strange Nation, and Crime Factory.

He is Australian and when not being a family man he hones his writing skills by sacrificing blood wombats to the outback spider fight clubs.

Reviews

[Ricardo Nuno Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fast-paced "surf noir" mini-series (3 issues) that will surprise most readers.
The main characters are presented early on, and the omnipresent narrator takes you down a path of deception, violence, betrayal and disenchantment.
The story is just so quick that most of the characters fall a bit flat, I'm afraid, and the main ones aren't too sympathetic either...
The art, on the other end, is great, moody, gloomy and perfectly fitting.
All in all, it's a nice "noir" tale, in a claustrophobic island, that will keep you wondering about the ending till the very last page.

[Colin Oaten · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tale in a style that can only be described as 'Surf Noir'. A hardboiled crime story set in a surfing resort where the residents have shady pasts. Good story with clean detailed art and good paper stock make the colouring stand out.

[dim · Rating 1 out of 5]

this story was horrible