Media Release -- Are you ready for the book with more martial arts than a Saturday night kick-fight with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris? Then you're ready for Amerikarate, the irreverent shot to the sweet spot of 80's action comedy karate with it's first volume collection coming this July from Action Lab: Danger Zone.
If you love Rambo, Commando, or Dirty Dancing, then you have great taste and should dive into the ongoing adventures of karate-masters Sam Kickwell and Cynthia Weaver! Illustrated by Bob's Burgers and Future Worm character designer Devin Roth!
Previews Staff Picks says Amerikarate is what would happen if "Team America World Police and Footloose had a hilarious, high-action, low-brow comic-baby!"
Don't waste your money on another karate-less book when Amerikarate is absolutely overflowing with high-kicking karate action! You'll walk away cheering, after crying laughing, before screaming "I love it!", while you soak in the amazing '80s-style action and beautiful animation-quality artwork.
Writer Brockton McKinney comments, "We wrote the '80s action flick we always wanted to see as kids!"
The first volume for this modern masterpiece of high kicking and side-splitting is open for pre-order now via all finer comic book and karate magazine sellers, and a new issue is in stores every month!
Amerikarate Volume 1: Suck My Kick will be released on July 19th, 2017.
Writer(s): Brockton McKinney, Christian Moran, Corey Kalman
Artist Name(s): Devin Roth
Cover Artist(s): Devin Roth (pencils, inks), Jeff Delgardo (colors)
128 pgs./ M / FC
$14.99
What people are saying about Amerikarate:
"It hearkens back to a time in our youth when we were more innocent. When reading a comic book felt like a getaway in which you could immerse yourself into this world and just revel in that happiness." (PopCultHQ)
"Three issues in and Amerikarate shows no signs of slowing down. It grabs your attention, smacks the hell out of it, and leaves it shouting 'Thank you sir, may I have another?!' " (Rogues Portal)
"If you're a fan of 80s cheese, gag a minute writing, and high energy action then you owe it to yourself to pick this issue up." (The Broken Infinite)
The creative teams are available for interviews and promotional opportunities.
For more information retailers, press and conventions can reach Nicole D'Andria at [email protected].
ABOUT ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT- Formed in 2010 with the purpose of pooling their collective talents into a single, powerful entity, the members of Action Lab Entertainment have countless years in multimedia publishing, design, and business. Their first release, Fracture, was successfully funded through Kickstarter and since then they have continued their mission to produce high quality, genre-spanning entertainment. Since its formation, the accolades for A.L.E continue to build on a daily basis. Among its more popular titles are all ages material like the Eisner, Glyph, Shel Dorf Award nominated series PRINCELESS, MIRACULOUS (based on the Nickelodeon Television series), Jamal Igle's MOLLY DANGER, Artist/ Writer Katie Cook's GRONK and Gayle Middleton's (My Little Pony, The Littlest Pet Shop) monstrously adorable VAMPLETS. Action Lab's Mature Readers imprint ACTION LAB DANGER ZONE continues to push the envelope of comics entertainment with titles as varied as Charles Band's PUPPET MASTER and Dan Mendoza's over the top horror-comedy ZOMBIE TRAMP, VAMPBLADE and ITTY BITTY BUNNIES IN RAINBOW PIXIE CANDY LAND, and socially relevant titles including SOUTHERN DOG, KINGDOM BUM and M Goodwin's TOMBOY.
