Chad Burdette
Kevin Shinick used to have all the answers. Before he was an acclaimed comic writer on titles like W.E.B. of Spider-Man and The Flash, before he was an Emmy Award-winning writer on Robot Chicken, before he was a bestselling novelist (Star Wars: Force Collector), before he was an Annie award-winning producer (MAD), Kevin Shinick had all the answers — as the TV gameshow host of Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? Now Shinick is writing Host Mortem, an all-new tongue-in-cheek, time travel metafiction mystery in which he appears (as himself!), along with Greg Lee (the host of Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?).
When the two former gameshow hosts are transported to the year 1947 by a time portal at Comic-Con, they find themselves enmeshed in a murder mystery involving Humphrey Bogart’s legendary noir film The Big Sleep. When one of the stars winds up dead, Kevin and Greg’s knowledge of random trivia might be the key to solving this Hollywood caper.
LA CONFIDENTIAL meets The IN-LAWS as two real life game show hosts from the 1990s attempt to solve a series of murders in the 1940s.
The mystery of what happened to your favorite childhood gameshow hosts is about to be solved!
Now On Kickstarter: HOST MORTEM! Graphic Novel from Emmy-winning writer & host Kevin Shinick
HOST MORTEM is a 200-page, tongue-in-cheek, dark noir thriller that takes real life TV hosts Kevin Shinick and Greg Lee (Carmen Sandiego, et al) and places them in the smoky, suspense driven world of the 1940’s, where they get entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the classic noir film, The Big Sleep.
Part Mark Millar’s Kingsman, part Ed Brubaker’s Fade Out, bestselling author and Emmy winning writer Kevin Shinick uses HOST MORTEM to ask the question, “Are game show hosts really smart? Or are they just used to having the answers?”
Kevin sat down with Comic Watch to discuss Host Mortum:
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Now On Kickstarter: HOST MORTEM! Graphic Novel from Emmy-winning writer & host Kevin Shinick
If you love movies, murders, mysteries, noir and a great sense of yesteryear, coupled with comedy, comics and the fun absurdity of two real life game show hosts with a ton of trivia at their fingerTIPS trying to solve murders without covering everything with their fingerPRINTS, then this is the book for you!
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